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Netherton syndrome with extensive skin peeling and failure to thrive due to a homozygous frameshift mutation in SPINK5.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2005
Geyer Adam S, Ratajczak Paulina, Pol-Rodriguez Marlyanne, Millar William S, Garzon Maria, Richard Gabriele
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Netherton syndrome (NTS) is a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by congenital erythroderma and ichthyosis, hair shaft abnormalities and immune dysregulation. The disorder is caused by deleterious mutations in the SPINK5 gene, encoding the serine protease inhibitor LEKTI. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to investigate if the erythrodermic variant of peeling skin syndrome is also...
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