Multiple Choice
The parents-to-be were shocked when an ultrasound scan done in the second trimester of the pregnancy showed a fetus with obviously broken leg bones and ribs.The doctor diagnosed osteogenesis imperfecta.This is caused by a mutation in a gene that encodes
A) beta globin.
B) alpha globin.
C) a clotting factor.
D) myosin.
E) collagen.
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