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Atrichia with papular lesions resulting from a nonsense mutation within the human hairless gene.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Oct 1999
Sprecher E, Lestringant G G, Szargel R, Bergman R, Labay V, Frossard P M, Friedman-Birnbaum R, Cohen N
Abstract excerpt
Atrichia with papular lesions is a rare autosomal recessive form of alopecia characterized by hair loss soon after birth and the development during childhood of a diffuse papular rash. We have previously shown that this disorder results from a deleterious mutation in the human hairless gene, a gene also involved in the pathogenesis of a related but clinically distinct form of congenital alopecia, termed alopecia...
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