Mutations in SFRP4 cause Pyle’s bone disease with wide metaphyses and increased skeletal fragility.The WNT signaling pathway plays important roles in determining skeletal architecture and SFRP4 is a secreted Frizzled...
This research was supported by the Division of Intramural Research,National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research,a part of the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health,Department of Health and Human Services.Open Access funding provided by the National Institutes of Health(NIH).
In a previous transcriptomic study of human bone marrow stromal cells(BMSCs,also known as bone marrow-derived^mesenchymal stem cells#,)/SFRP2 was highly over-represented in a subset of multipotent BMSCs(skeletal stem ...