Rab27b is Up‐Regulated in Human Griscelli Syndrome Type II Melanocytes and Linked to the Actin Cytoskeleton via Exon F‐Myosin Va Transcripts

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Patients with the autosomal recessive Griscelli-Pruniéras syndrome type II are immunologically impaired and have an unusual silvery-grey hypopigmented colour of scalp hair, eyelashes and eyebrows but no noteworthy pigmentary abnormalities of the skin. In most Griscelli patients, the RAB27A gene, which encodes a small GTPase that is associated with the melanosome membrane in melanocytes, is mutated. Here we...

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