JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH, cilt.18, sa.10, ss.1740-1747, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
Among 94 osteopetrotic patients presenting with a severe clinical picture and diagnosed early in life, 12 bore mutations in the ClCN7 gene, but only 7 of them had the expected two recessive mutations. The remaining five patients seem to be heterozygous for a ClCN7 mutation, and significant variations were observed in the clinical manifestations of their disease, even within the same family.