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Responsiveness to pamidronate treatment is not related to the genotype of type I collagen in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta.
Journal of bone and mineral metabolism - 1 May 2018
Kanno Junko, Saito-Hakoda Akiko, Kure Shigeo, Fujiwara Ikuma
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by increased bone fragility, low bone mass, dentinogenesis imperfecta, and blue sclerae. Most patients with OI have a mutation in either COL1A1 or COL1A2, which encode type I collagen. We screened these genes in Japanese patients with OI and compared their genotype and phenotype, focusing on the clinical response to treatment with pamidronate....
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