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Skeletal Pathophysiology

Skeletal Pathophysiology

The research activity of the lab is focused on post-natal skeletal stem cell biology and role in genetic and acquired skeletal diseases, pathogenetic mechanisms of Fibrous dysplasia of bone and other GNAS related disorders, development and analysis of transgenic mouse models and bone organoids to investigate genetic, neoplastic and infectious skeletal disorders.

Neonatal McCune-Albright syndrome: a unique syndromic profile with an unfavorable outcome

Somatic gain-of-function mutations of GNAS cause a spectrum of clinical phenotypes, ranging from McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) to isolated disease of bone, endocrine glands, and more rarely, other organs. In MAS, a syndrome classically characterized by polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (FD), cafe-? au-lait (CAL) skin spots, and precocious puberty, the heterogenity of organ involvement, age of onset, and clinical severity of the disease are thought to reflect the variable size and the random distribution of the mutated cell clone arising from the postzygotic mutation.

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