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Novel mutations in FKBP10 and PLOD2 cause rare Bruck syndrome in Chinese patients.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Zhou Peiran, Liu Yi, Lv Fang, Nie Min, Jiang Yan, Wang Ou, Xia Weibo, Xing Xiaoping, Li Mei
Abstract excerpt
Bruck syndrome (BS) is an extremely rare form of osteogenesis imperfecta characterized by congenital joint contracture, multiple fractures and short stature. We described the phenotypes of BS in two Chinese patients for the first time. The novel compound heterozygous mutations c.764_772dupACGTCCTCC (p.255_257dupHisValLeu) in exon 5 and c.1405G>T (p.Gly469X) in exon 9 of FKBP10 were identified in one proband. The...
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