Description of familial keloids in five pedigrees: evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance and phenotypic heterogeneity

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BACKGROUND: Familial keloids have been reported, having either autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive inheritance. We wished to determine the inheritance pattern and phenotype of keloids among multigenerational families, as a prelude to a positional mapping strategy to identify candidate genes. METHODS: We studied three African American families, one Afro-Caribbean family and one Asian-American family....

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