marble bone disease


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Related to marble bone disease: osteogenesis imperfecta, Brittle bone disease

marble bone disease

[′mär·bəl ¦bōn di‚zēz]
(medicine)
osteopetrosis
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It is also called marble bone disease. This rare genetic disease is associated with four genes TCIRG1, CICN7, OSTM1, PLEKHM1.
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