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Uncommon IFITM5 mutation associated with severe skeletal deformity in osteogenesis imperfecta.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2018
Rodriguez Celin Mercedes, Moosa Shahida, Fano Virginia
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is the most common skeletal dysplasia, which predisposes to recurrent fractures and bone deformity and presents with wide clinical variability. More than 80% of OI cases are related to dominantly inherited mutations in COL1A1 or COL1A2. The rest of the cases, however, involve many other noncollagen genes, all of which are autosomal-recessively inherited, except for IFITM5 and WNT1,...
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