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Hypophosphatasia.
Current osteoporosis reports - 1 Jun 2016
Linglart Agnès, Biosse-Duplan Martin
Abstract excerpt
Hypophosphatasia is a rare disorder due to a mutation in the ALPL gene encoding the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) leading to a diminished activity of the enzyme in bone, liver, and kidney. Hypophosphatasia is a heterogeneous disease, ranging from extreme life-threatening forms revealed at birth in young infants presenting with severely impaired bone mineralization, seizures, and hypercalcemia, to young adults with...
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