Osteogenesis Imperfecta is a bone disease that is otherwise known as brittle bone disease. It is a genetic disorder that affects some extra skeletal tissues, teeth, and heart valves. Those are the things that this disease affects but not so severely, it mostly causes people to have problems with their bones and muscles. This disease causes a person’s bones to be very breakable and their muscles to become very weak, in the area of …showed first 75 words of 1065 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1065 total…have started to pay much more attention to this disease and are now much more careful. Many couples have decided never to have children of their own specifically because they know that their gene types put together could cause their child to be born with OI. Hopefully more can be learned about in the future to help prevent many more from getting this disease or at least if they do a way to fix it.