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Pathogenesis of the cutaneous phenotype in inherited disorders of cholesterol metabolism
1 Apr 2011
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Molecular geneticists tend to conceptualize disease pathogenesis from the mutated gene outward, an approach that does not take into account the impact of barrier requirements in determining disease phenotype. An 'outside-to-inside' perspective has provided quite different explanations for the ichthyoses, including several of the disorders of distal cholesterol metabolism. Elucidation of responsible pathogenic...
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