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01-09-2014 | Poster presentation
Clinical and radiological presentation of a child with progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia
Authors:
E Atsali, KD Stathopoulos, I Bournazos, E Damianou, AA Partsinevelos, Y Dionyssiotis, A Papadopoulou, V Papaevangelou, PJ Papagelopoulos, G Skarantavos
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
The role of WNT pathway in bone formation and maintenance has been extensively studied since the identification of mutations in key signalling WNT mediators in diseases with high or low bone-mass phenotypes. In humans, loss-of-function mutations in WISP3, encoding Wnt1-inducible signaling protein 3, cause progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia (PPD), an autosomal recessive form of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda. …