Article
Linkage analysis in dominantly inherited osteogenesis imperfecta.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Jan 1993
Sykes B
Abstract excerpt
The only serious attempts at linkage in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) have shown that the disease is linked to type 1 collagen genes in all families studied in which it segregrates as a clear mendelian dominant trait. For prenatal diagnosis the probability that a new family is linked can be taken as greater than 0.95 and this figure is augmented as more meioses are studied. Some phenotype correlations, notably...
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