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Atrichia with papular lesions resulting from mutations in the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) hairless gene.
Laboratory animals - 1 Jan 2002
Ahmad Wasim, Ratterree Marion S, Panteleyev Andrei A, Aita Vincent M, Sundberg John P, Christiano Angela M
Abstract excerpt
Atrichia with papular lesions (APL) is a rare form of hair loss with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance that is characterized by the absence of normal hair follicles, and formation of intradermal cystic structures. Mutations in the hairless (hr) gene in mice and humans have been implicated in the development of this phenotype. Hairless is a putative transcription factor containing a single zinc-finger DNA...
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