Meenal Mehrotra (IMAGE)

Medical University of South Carolina

Meenal Mehrotra

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Meenal Mehrotra, assistant professor in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at MUSC Health and principal investigator on the paper, points to a mutation in the collagen gene as the major cause of the weak bones that come with osteogenesis imperfecta.

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Anne Thompson, MUSC Health

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