What is familial vitamin D-resistant rickets?

Patient's question:

Recently, I've been feeling that my condition hasn't been very good. Sometimes I feel a lot of pain in my back. When I went to the hospital, the doctor said it was familial vitamin D-resistant rickets. What is this disease?

Doctor's answer:

Hello, the etiology of primary hypophosphatemic rickets is mainly related to genetics. Familial vitamin D-resistant rickets or osteomalacia is an X-linked dominant genetic disease, and the genetic defect abnormal factor is mainly located on the X chromosome. It can also be autosomal recessive inheritance, and patients often have a family history.

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