Article
Subtle structural alterations in the chains of type I procollagen produce osteogenesis imperfecta type II.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Bonadio J, Byers P H
Abstract excerpt
Although the perinatal lethal form of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI type II) occasionally results from large rearrangements within the genes encoding type I collagen, most mutations are far more subtle. The complexity of the human collagen genes precludes cloning and sequencing each gene from every patient, and we have therefore developed an approach to localizing mutations at the protein level. We report here that...
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