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KID Syndrome: report of a Scandinavian patient with connexin-26 gene mutation.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jan 2005
Bygum Anette, Betz Regina C, Kragballe Knud, Steiniche Torben, Peeters Nils, Wuyts Wim, Nöthen Markus M
Abstract excerpt
Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome is a rare genodermatosis, which has recently been connected with mutations in the connexin-26 gene, GJB2. We present a 15-year-old boy with erythroderma, hyperkeratotic plaques and deafness. Sequencing analysis showed a heterozygous missense mutation D50N (148G>A) in GJB2. The boy has not yet manifested characteristic eye lesions but his case shows that tardy development of...
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