Sentences with phrase «disease osteogenesis imperfecta»

For example, researchers found that healthy bone marrow stromal cells, which give rise to bone, could strengthen bones and prevent fractures when injected into three children with the bone - weakening disease osteogenesis imperfecta.

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Although my form of brittle bone disease (OI, osteogenesis imperfecta) is quite mild, I experienced some fifteen or so fractures in my youth.

Osteogenesis imperfecta is a genetic disease that affects an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 people in the United States, about 1 in 20,000 live births.

A newly identified gene mutation helps explain a subset of cases of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), or brittle bone disease, whose origin had until now remained mysterious.

Samuel L. Jackson played Elijah Price, who was born with Type I osteogenesis imperfecta a rare disease that renders sufferers» bones extremely fragile and prone to fracture leading him to be dubbed «Mr. Glass» by other kids and the inspiration for his search for Dunn's character, his polar opposite.

In «Unbreakable», Samuel L. Jackson played Elijah Price, who was born with Type I osteogenesis imperfecta a rare disease that renders sufferers» bones extremely fragile and prone to fracture leading him to be dubbed «Mr. Glass» by other kids and the inspiration for his search for Dunn's character, his polar opposite.

Osteogenesis imperfecta (golden retriever type) is inherited in an Autosomal Dominant manner in dogs meaning that they only need to inherit one copy of the mutated gene to develop the disease.

In Re M (a child)[2007] EWCA Civ 589, [2007] All ER (D) 257 (May) an expert witness was called in by a child's mother to report on whether unexplained fractures to her child's ulna and tibia might have been due to osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease).