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Atrichia with papular lesions in two Pakistani consanguineous families resulting from mutations in the human hairless gene.
Archives of dermatological research - 1 Nov 2005
John Peter, Aslam Muhammad, Rafiq Muhammad Arshad, Amin-ud-din Muhammad, Haque Sayedul, Ahmad Wasim
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Atrichia with papular lesions (APL) is a rare autosomal recessive form of total alopecia, characterized by hair loss soon after birth and the development of papular lesions of keratin-filled cysts over extensive areas of the body. Mutations in the hairless (hr) gene, a putative single zinc finger transcription factor, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of this disorder. In the present study, we describe two...
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