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Perinatal hypophosphatasia caused by uniparental isodisomy.
Bone - 1 Mar 2014
Watanabe Atsushi, Satoh Shuhei, Fujita Atsushi, Naing Banyar Than, Orimo Hideo, Shimada Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is an inherited disorder characterized by defective bone mineralization caused by mutations in the alkaline phosphatase gene (ALPL). Clinically, the disease spans a great continuum of disease severity and six forms can be distinguished according to the age of onset. The most severe is the autosomal recessive perinatal form, a major prenatal skeletal dysplasia in Japan. The ALPL mutation...
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