Genetic diseases with rheumatic manifestations in children.

doi:10.1097/00002281-199809000-00015

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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 dy...

Topics

Child, Preschool
Chromosome Aberrations
Chromosome Disorders
Collagen
Collagen Diseases
Fibrillins
Fibroblast Growth Factor 3
Fibroblast Growth Factors
Humans
Metabolic Diseases
Microfilament Proteins
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Mutation
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
Rheumatic Diseases

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