When starting a new job in a home for physically handicapped children, the nurse points out a 7-year-old girl who is only 80 cm tall, is wheelchair-bound, and has multiple limb deformities.The nurse tells you that the girl has "glass bones" and had suffered severe fractures on many occasions.This girl most likely has a mutation in one of the genes for:

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Osteogenesis imperfecta is caused by mutations in one or another of the type I collagen genes.The disease manifests in all degrees of severity.It is in most cases dominantly inherited.The more severe forms are caused by new dominant mutations (or, occasionally, result from autosomal recessive inheritance); affected individuals are too disabled to reproduce.

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