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Common Variant of POC5 Is Associated With the Susceptibility of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
Spine - 15 Jun 2018
Xu Leilei, Sheng Fei, Xia Chao, Li Yetian, Feng Zhenhua, Qiu Yong, Zhu Zezhang
Abstract excerpt
STUDY DESIGN: A case-control study. OBJECTIVE: To validate the relationship between POC5 and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) in the Chinese patients and to further investigate the functional role of POC5. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Three rare functional variants in the POC5 were recently reported to be strongly associated with the disease in a large family with multiple members affected with idiopathic...
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