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Further evidence supporting a genetic background for Paget's disease of bone in Spain.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Jan 2012
Morales-Piga A, Bachiller-Corral J, Villaverde-Hueso A, Alonso-Ferreira V, Posada de la Paz M, López-Abente G
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The aim of this paper is to investigate heritable factors that might be related to the recognised genetic susceptibility for developing Paget's disease of bone (PD). This was a hospital-based, case-control study of a systematically selected group of PD patients and a group of controls drawn from the same health setting. In these populations we assessed surname pattern, parental consanguinity and constitutional...
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