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Article

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

Craniometaphyseal dysplasia (CMD; OMIM #123000) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by hyperostosis of craniofacial bones and metaphyseal flaring of long bones. Progressive bone thickening causes foraminal stenosis, which leads to the compression of cranial nerves and resultant facial palsy, hearing loss, and blindness. CMD is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait or occurs sporadically with apparent de novo mutations (1, 2). Here, we present two novel large deletions in exons 7 and 10 of ANKH from two unrelated patients without the family history of CMD manifesting severe forms of the disorder.

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Clin Genet. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 August 13. Published in final edited form as: Clin Genet. 2012 January; 81(1): 93–95. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01700.x PMCID: PMC3417334 NIHMSID: NIHMS395265

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