Rare childhood bone disorder linked to gene deletion in two Navajo patients
Two seemingly unrelated Native American children have one painful thing in common: juvenile Paget's disease (JPD), an extremely rare, bone metabolism disorder. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Shriners Hospitals for Children, St. Louis, have discovered that the two patients also share an unusual genetic defect. Shriners Hospitals for Children, National Institutes of Health, Clark and Mildred Cox Inherited Metabolic Bone Disease Research Fund Contact: Gila Z. Reckess reckessg@msnotes.wustl.edu 314-286-0109 Washington University School of Medicine [Note: This message has been edited by kai]
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