[Patterns on the skin. New aspects of their embryologic and genetic causes].

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The concept of cutaneous mosaicism has now been proven by numerous studies. In this way, the idea that all nevi represent mosaics has so far been confirmed. We can distinguish five different patterns of mosaicism in human skin in the form of lines of Blaschko, checkerboard pattern, phylloid pattern, patchy pattern without midline separation, and lateralization. Two different etiological categories are epigenetic...

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