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Variable signaling activity by FOP ACVR1 mutations.
Bone - 1 Apr 2018
Haupt Julia, Xu Meiqi, Shore Eileen M
Abstract excerpt
Most patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare genetic disorder of heterotopic ossification, have the same causative mutation in ACVR1, R206H. However, additional mutations within the ACVR1 BMP type I receptor have been identified in a small number of FOP cases, often in patients with disease of lesser or greater severity than occurs with R206H mutations. Genotype-phenotype correlations...
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