Article
Congenital atrichia with papular lesions resulting from novel mutations in human hairless gene in four consanguineous families.
The Journal of dermatology - 1 Aug 2011
Azeem Zahid, Wasif Naveed, Basit Sulman, Razak Suhail, Waheed Raja Amjad, Islam Adeel, Ayub Muhammad, Kafaitullah, Kamran-ul-hassan Naqvi Syed, Ali Ghazanfar, Ahmad Wasim
Abstract excerpt
Congenital atrichia with papular lesions (APL; Mendelian Inheritance in Man no. 209500) is a rare form of irreversible alopecia that follows an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Patients with this form of alopecia show hair loss soon after birth with the development of papular lesions of keratin-filled cysts over the body. Several studies have reported sequence variants in the human hairless (HR) gene as...
Topics
- Adult
- Alopecia
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Codon, Nonsense
- Consanguinity
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Humans
- Male
