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Mutations in the gene encoding fibroblast growth factor receptor-3 in achondroplasia.
Nature - 15 Sept 1994
Rousseau F, Bonaventure J, Legeai-Mallet L, Pelet A, Rozet J M, Maroteaux P, Le Merrer M, Munnich A
Abstract excerpt
Achondroplasia, the most common cause of chondrodysplasia in man (1 in 15,000 live births), is a condition of unknown origin characterized by short-limbed dwarfism and macrocephaly. More than 90% of cases are sporadic and there is an increased paternal age at the time of conception of affected individuals, suggesting that de novo mutations are of paternal origin. Affected individuals are fertile and...
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