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[Dyskeratosis congenita, a disease caused by defective telomere maintenance].
Medecine sciences : M/S - 1 Apr 2008
Hoareau-Aveilla Coralie, Henry Yves, Leblanc Thierry
Abstract excerpt
Dyskeratosis congenita (DC), also called Zinsser-Cole-Engman syndrome, is a rare, often fatal, inherited disease described for the first time at the dermatological level by Zinsser in 1906. It is a very polymorphous disease at the clinical level, with several modes of inheritance. Several clinical symptoms of the disease can appear after a latency period. These features render DC particularly difficult to...
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