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Is "fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva" a vascular disease? A groundbreaking pathogenic model.
Reumatologia clinica - 1 Jan 2000
Morales-Piga Antonio, Bachiller-Corral Francisco Javier, Sánchez-Duffhues Gonzalo
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is the most severe and disabling disorder of ectopic ossification in humans. It is characterized by congenital skeletal abnormalities in association with extraskeletal widespread endochondral osteogenesis. Virtually all patients show the same mutation in the "Activin A type-I/activin-like kinase-2" receptor encoding gene. As a result of this discovery there have been...
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