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Digenic junctional epidermolysis bullosa: mutations in COL17A1 and LAMB3 genes.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 1999
Floeth M, Bruckner-Tuderman L
Abstract excerpt
Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB), a genetically heterogeneous group of blistering skin diseases, can be caused by mutations in the genes encoding laminin 5 or collagen XVII, which are components of the hemidesmosome-anchoring filament complex in the skin. Here, a family with severe nonlethal JEB and with mutations in genes for both proteins was identified. The index patient was compound heterozygous for the...
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