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Science 2 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5471, pp. 1565 - 1567
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1565
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Patients Help Track Down Disease Gene

Elizabeth Pennisi

A patient advocacy group called PXE International has helped three research teams pinpoint the identity of the gene for pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a rare inherited disorder. Two labs report their results in the June issue of Nature Genetics; the third group published its findings in the 23 May Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. All the researchers say that having a group of families willing to work with them was critical to their success.

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