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A mutation in the conserved helix termination peptide of keratin 5 in hereditary skin blistering.
Nature - 19 Mar 1992
Lane E B, Rugg E L, Navsaria H, Leigh I M, Heagerty A H, Ishida-Yamamoto A, Eady R A
Abstract excerpt
In the hereditary blistering condition epidermolysis bullosa simplex, the skin blisters on trauma following rupture of epidermal basal cells. Clinical variations range from severely incapacitating, especially in early childhood, to mild forms that may not even present clinically. Dowling-Meara epidermolysis bullosa simplex is characterized by clusters of epidermal blisters and keratin clumping in the cytoplasm;...
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