Bone Abstracts

Background: Osteogenesis imperfecta [OI] is a disorder of bone fragility with a variable spectrum of severity and poor correlation of antenatal findings with postnatal outcome. We present two antenatal diagnosed cases with a mild postnatal course significant for the absence of fractures and progressive remodelling of the long bones. A novel heterozygous pathogenic mutation predicted to replace glycine with aspartic acid at position 913 in exon 42 of the COL1A2 gene has been id...