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Prenatal diagnosis of a lethal form of Netherton syndrome by SPINK5 mutation analysis.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Feb 2002
Bitoun E, Bodemer C, Amiel J, de Prost Y, Stoll C, Calvas P, Hovnanian A
Abstract excerpt
Netherton syndrome (NS) is a severe autosomal recessive ichthyosis with no specific treatment or prenatal diagnosis available at present. The recent identification of SPINK5, which encodes a serine protease inhibitor, as the defective gene enables DNA based prenatal diagnosis to be carried out. Here we report the first direct molecular prenatal diagnosis of a lethal form due to a recurrent SPINK5 mutation in...
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