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Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type VI in Individuals from Northern Canada.
Calcified tissue international - 1 Jun 2016
Ward Leanne, Bardai Ghalib, Moffatt Pierre, Al-Jallad Hadil, Trejo Pamela, Glorieux Francis H, Rauch Frank
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) type VI is a recessively inherited form of OI that is caused by mutations in SERPINF1, the gene coding for pigment-epithelium derived factor (PEDF). Here, we report on two apparently unrelated children with OI type VI who had the same unusual homozygous variant in intron 6 of SERPINF1 (c.787-10C>G). This variant created a novel splice site that led to the in-frame addition of three...
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