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A founder mutation for ichthyosis prematurity syndrome restricted to 76 kb by haplotype association.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Melin M, Klar J, Jr Gedde-Dahl T, Fredriksson R, Hausser I, Brandrup F, Bygum A, Vahlquist A, Hellström Pigg M, Dahl N
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) is a group of keratinisation disorders that includes the ichthyosis prematurity syndrome (IPS). IPS is rare and almost exclusively present in a restricted region in the middle of Norway and Sweden, which indicates a founder effect for the disorder. We recently reported linkage of IPS to chromosome 9q34, and we present here the subsequent fine-mapping of this region...
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