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Progressive osseous heteroplasia: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
By Dr. Jamal Olsen, MD · · Genetic Medicine
This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Genetic Medicine service line explains progressive osseous heteroplasia in plain language.
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Topic: progressive osseous heteroplasia. A syndrome characterized by infantile onset of dermal ossification followed by progressive bone formation in skeletal muscle and deep fascia that has_material_basis_in heterozygous loss of function mutation in the Gs-alpha isoform of the GNAS gene on chromosome 20q13.32.
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