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Identification of a MAFB mutation in a patient with multicentric carpotarsal osteolysis.
Swiss medical weekly - 1 Jan 2017
Zhuang Lei, Adler Sabine, Aeberli Daniel, Villiger Peter M, Trueb Beat
Abstract excerpt
Multicentric carpotarsal osteolysis (MCTO) is an autosomal dominant disease of the skeleton characterised by progressive destruction of carpal and tarsal bones. Recently, it has been demonstrated that this disease is caused by heterozygous mutations in the gene for the transcriptional repressor MAFB. We analysed genomic DNA and RNA from leucocytes of a female patient diagnosed with MCTO. We identified the...
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