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Fragilitas ossium (fro/fro) in the mouse: a model for a recessively inherited type of osteogenesis imperfecta.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Jan 1993
Sillence D O, Ritchie H E, Dibbayawan T, Eteson D, Brown K
Abstract excerpt
The fragilitas ossium (fro/fro) mutation in the mouse has been demonstrated to have clinical, radiographic and morphologic manifestations similar to those which arise in autosomal recessive forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) occurring in humans. Approximately 90% of mutant offspring in the mouse were perinatally lethal with clinical and roentgenographic findings similar to those of OI type II subgroup A in...
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