*Clinical and Investigative Orthopedics Surgery Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
‡Section on Congenital Disorders, Clinical Center
§Section on Heritable Disorders of Bone and Extracellular Matrix, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
†Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK, and AUVA Trauma Center Meidling, 1st Medical Department Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria
Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: Supported by the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Austrian Workers’ Compensation Board/Austrian Social Insurance for Occupational Risks (AUVA), and the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund (WGKK). C.N.F. acknowledges funding support through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program, a public-private partnership supported jointly by the NIH and generous contributions from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Genentech, American Association for Dental Research, the Colgate-Palmolive Company, Elsevier, and other private donors.
The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial companies pertaining to this article.
Correspondence: Timothy Bhattacharyya, MD, Clinical and Investigative Orthopedics Surgery Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10-CRC, Room 4-2339, Bethesda, MD 20892-3675 (e-mail: [email protected]).
