Population
Children with Perthes' disease
Design
Review
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Challenges genetic models of Perthes' disease; leaves open prospective validation of developmental and environmental associations.
Perthes' disease appears to be a nongenetic developmental disorder associated with delayed skeletal maturation and environmental factors rather than a specific genetic disease process.
R Wynne-Davies (1980) studied this question.
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