Acknowledgments
NIAMS gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Alan Moshell, M.D., and Bernadette Tyree, Ph.D., NIAMS; Peter Byers, M.D., University of Washington, Seattle; Priscilla Ciccariello and Sharon Terry, Coalition for Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue, Washington, DC; Hal Dietz, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Jeanne Mandeville, Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, Hopkins, MN; Dianna Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas-Houston Medical School; Francesco Ramirez, Ph.D., Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Joel Rosenbloom, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia; David Rowe, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington; Heller An Shapiro, Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, Gaithersburg, MD; and Jouni Uitto, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, in the preparation and review of this publication.
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