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Meaning of picnodisostosis by Felipe Lorenzo del Río




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picnodisostosis
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Medical term . Rare inherited disease (only 50 diagnoses) due to the mutation of a gene on chromosome 1 that causes deficiency of the enzyme katepsin K with fragility in the bones and short stature. It seems that it was the illness of the French painter Tuoluse-Lautrec, that is why it bears his name.

  

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