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Achondroplasia, the most common cause of chondrodysplasia in man, is characterized by short-limbed dwarfism, macrocephaly, and dysplasia of metaphyses of the tubular bones. Recently, mutations in the gene encoding fibroblast growth factor receptor-3 (FGFR-3) have been found in patients with achondroplasia. All mutations so far reported had occurred at codon 380, resulting in the substitution of an arginine for a glycine in the transmembrane domain of the predicted protein. We have examined the transmembrane domain of the FGFR-3 gene in seven Japanese patients with achondroplasia. Of the six cases that were sporadic, all carried a mutation in codon 380; the single familial case bore a novel mutation of a G-to-T transition at codon 375, which resulted in substitution of a cysteine for a glycine.
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Ikegawa, S., Fukushima, Y., Isomura, M. et al. Mutations of the fibroblast growth factor receptor-3 gene in one familial and six sporadic cases of achondroplasia in Japanese patients. Hum Genet 96, 309–311 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00210413
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