Growth plate gene involment and isolated short stature.

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PURPOSE: Short stature is a common clinical presentation, thus it is widely accepted that it is a polygenic trait. However, genome wide association and next generation sequencing studies have recently challenged this view, suggesting that many of the children classified as idiopathic short stature could instead have monogenic defects. Linear growth is determined primarily by chondrogenesis at the growth plate....

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