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The serum levels of activin A and bone morphogenetic protein-4 and -6 in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 10 May 2023
Ye Zhengqin, Wang Siyi, Shan Chang, Zhu Qi, Xue Ying, Zhang Keqin
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BACKGROUND: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an ultrarare and disabling genetic disorder of connective tissue characterized by congenital malformation of the great toes, and progressive heterotopic ossification (HO) in soft connective tissues. A gain-of-function mutation of activin A receptor type I (ACVR1) enables ACVR1 to recognize activin A as an agonist with bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)...
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