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Mutation report: complete paternal uniparental isodisomy of chromosome 1: a novel mechanism for Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Aug 2000
Takizawa Y, Pulkkinen L, Chao S C, Nakajima H, Nakano Y, Shimizu H, Uitto J
Abstract excerpt
Uniparental disomy denotes a situation when an individual has inherited two copies of a specific chromosome from a single parent. Uniparental disomy has been demonstrated to be involved in the pathogenesis of recessively inherited diseases in rare cases. Here we report a patient of Japanese origin with Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa (OMIM no. 226700), who died at the age of 8 mo from complications of...
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