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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva emerges from obscurity.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Feb 2025
Kaplan Frederick S, Shore Eileen M, Pignolo Robert J
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a disorder of congenital skeletal malformations and progressive extraskeletal ossification, is the most severe form of heterotopic ossification (HO) in humans. Gain-of-function pathogenic variants in activin A receptor type I (ACVR1), a bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) type 1 receptor, cause FOP by dramatically altering the normal physiologic functions of ACVR1,...
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