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Genetic diseases with rheumatic manifestations in children.
Current opinion in rheumatology - 1 Sept 1998
Prahalad S, Colbert R A
Abstract excerpt
Many nonrheumatic diseases of childhood present with musculoskeletal abnormalities. A significant proportion of these disorders have a genetic basis, many involving defects in structural proteins of the connective tissue. Chief among these are collagen mutations resulting in spondyloepiphyseal dysplasias and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, as well as fibrillin defects associated with Marfan's syndrome. A variety of other...
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