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A compound heterozygous mutation of the SPINK5 gene in a Taiwanese boy with Netherton syndrome.
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi - 1 Jun 2003
Chao Sheau-Chiou, Tsai Ya-Ming, Lee Julia Yu-Yun
Abstract excerpt
Netherton syndrome (NS) is a severe, autosomal, recessive ichthyosis. It is characterized by congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma (CIE), trichorrhexis invaginata (TI) - a distinctive hair-shaft anomaly, and atopic diathesis. Recently, pathogenic mutations were identified in serine protease inhibitor Kazal-type 5 (SPINK5), the gene that encodes lympho-epithelial Kazal-type-related inhibitor (LEKTI), a recently...
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