Rationale and background as basis for a new classification of the ectodermal dysplasias.

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Ectodermal dysplasias are heterogeneous heritable conditions characterized by congenital defects of one or more ectodermal structures and their appendages. Of approximately 200 different ectodermal dysplasias, about 30 have been identified at molecular level with identification of the causative gene. Itin and Fistarol emphasized that rather commonly non-fully expressed phenotypes exist, which make a clinical...

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