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Why the Dutch? It may just be because this particular mutation happened randomly in someone in the Netherlands who was part of a small population. That person’s descendants would carry a copy of the mutated gene,
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Van Buchem disease is similar to some other bone-thickening diseases,
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The patient who received the new plastic skull had slowly lost her vision as her skull thickened and pressed in on her brain,
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