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Heritable collagen disorders: from phenotype to genotype.
Verhandelingen - Koninklijke Academie voor Geneeskunde van Belgie - 1 Jan 1998
De Paepe A
Abstract excerpt
Genetic disorders of collagen comprise a heterogeneous group of disease with pleiotropic manifestations and monogenic inheritance. They are caused by mutations in genes encoding collagen proteins or enzymes involved in collagen biosynthesis. New insights into the molecular basis of two of these conditions are presented here. In Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) characterized by bone fragility, mutations in the COL1A1...
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