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SUBMITTER: Pangrazio A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3149657 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pangrazio Alessandra A Boudin Eveline E Piters Elke E Damante Giuseppe G Lo Iacono Nadia N D'Elia Angela Valentina AV Vezzoni Paolo P Van Hul Wim W Villa Anna A Sobacchi Cristina C
Bone 20110511 3
In the last decade, the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) gene, coding for a coreceptor in the canonical Wnt signalling pathway, has been shown to play an important role in regulating bone mass and to be involved in the pathogenesis of several bone disorders. Here we describe a patient who presented with a clinical picture of Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis type I (ADO I), in whom we could identify the first deletion in the LRP5 gene causing increased bone mass. This mut ...[more]