As little as a century ago, a serious deformity of the bones was widespread in North America and Europe, particularly among children. Rickets, caused by too little vitamin D in the diet or too ...

In North America, rickets is most commonly found in children with relatively more pigmented skin, who are exclusively breastfed. In Europe and Australia, ...

X-linked hypophosphatemia, a disorder of renal phosphate wasting and the most common heritable form of rickets, is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding phosphate-regulating ...