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Mutations in gasdermin 3 cause aberrant differentiation of the hair follicle and sebaceous gland.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Mar 2005
Lunny Declan P, Weed Erica, Nolan Patrick M, Marquardt Andreas, Augustin Martin, Porter Rebecca M
Abstract excerpt
Defolliculated (Dfl) is a spontaneous mouse mutant with a hair-loss phenotype that includes altered sebaceous gland differentiation, short hair shafts, aberrant catagen stage of the hair cycle, and eventual loss of the hair follicle. Recently a similar mutant, finnegan (Fgn), with an identical phenotype was discovered during a phenotypic screen for mutations induced by chemical mutagenesis. The gene underlying...
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