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Assessing the general population frequency of rare coding variants in the EXT1 and EXT2 genes previously implicated in hereditary multiple exostoses.
Bone - 1 Nov 2016
Cousminer Diana L, Arkader Alexandre, Voight Benjamin F, Pacifici Maurizio, Grant Struan F A
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is a rare childhood-onset skeletal disease linked to mutations in exostosin glycosyltransferase 1 (EXT1) or 2 (EXT2). Patients are heterozygous for either an EXT1 or EXT2 mutation, and it is widely assumed that exostosis formation and associated defects, such as growth retardation and skeletal deformities, require loss-of-heterozygosity or a second hit in affected cells....
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