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Molecular and clinical characterization in Japanese and Korean patients with Hailey-Hailey disease: six new mutations in the ATP2C1 gene.
Journal of dermatological science - 1 Jul 2008
Hamada Takahiro, Fukuda Shunpei, Sakaguchi Sachiko, Yasumoto Shinichiro, Kim Soo-Chan, Hashimoto Takashi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The autosomal dominant disorder Hailey-Hailey disease (HHD) results from mutations in the ATP2C1 gene, which encodes the human secretory pathway Ca2+/Mn2+ -ATPase protein 1. To date, over 90 pathological mutations scattered throughout ATP2C1 have been described with no indication of mutational hotspots or clustering of mutations. No paradigm for genotype-phenotype correlation has emerged. OBJECTIVES:...
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