Human hair abnormalities resulting from inherited desmosome gene mutations.

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Over the last eight years, several naturally occurring human gene mutations in structural components of desmosomes, cell-cell adhesion junctions found in skin, heart and meninges, have been reported. These comprise dominant or recessive mutations in plakophilin 1, plakophilin 2, desmoplakin, desm...

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