Gene is linked to bone disorder
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Government researchers have discovered a recessive gene that causes about 15% of cases of a rare and sometimes fatal bone disorder best known as brittle bone disease.
Osteogenesis imperfecta affects one in every 15,000 to 20,000 births. People with the disease produce either too little or defective collagen, the protein that acts as scaffolding in bone and other connective tissue.
