Sentences with phrase «fop symptoms»

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In that disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a mutation triggers bone growth in muscles, alters skeletal bone formation, and limits motion, breathing, and swallowing, among a host of progressive symptoms.

In fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a mutation triggers bone growth in muscles, which limits motion, breathing, and swallowing, among a host of progressive symptoms.

Twenty years after he first stumbled on FOP, Economides and his colleagues report today that the gene mutation shared by 97 % of people with the disease can trigger its symptoms in a manner different than had been assumed — through a single molecule not previously eyed as a suspect.