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Normal erythrocyte membrane Gs alpha bioactivity in two unrelated patients with acrodysostosis.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Feb 1997
Wilson L C, Oude Luttikhuis M E, Baraitser M, Kingston H M, Trembath R C
Abstract excerpt
Shortening of the tubular bones of the hands and feet with cone shaped epiphyses is known as peripheral dysostosis and is common to several syndromes including acrodysostosis and Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO). The underlying defect in AHO is known to be a reduction in bioactivity of the alpha subunit of the signal transducing protein, Gs, and heterozygous deactivating mutations have been shown in the...
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