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Normal bone mineralization requires adequate supplies of calcium and phosphate and normal vitamin D metabolism (Norman 1982). Defective supply or function of any of these factors can cause rickets and osteomalacia (Pitt 1991). Nutritional rickets is a major public health problem in many countries of the world (Prentice 2013).

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Chen, H. (2016). Rickets. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6430-3_203-2

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