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Mutations in the lipase-H gene causing autosomal recessive hypotrichosis and woolly hair.
The Australasian journal of dermatology - 1 Aug 2015
Mehmood Sabba, Jan Abid, Muhammad Dost, Ahmad Farooq, Mir Hina, Younus Muhammad, Ali Ghazanfar, Ayub Muhammad, Ansar Muhammad, Ahmad Wasim
Abstract excerpt
Hypotrichosis is characterised by sparse scalp hair, sparse to absent eyebrows and eyelashes, or absence of hair from other parts of the body. In few cases, the condition is associated with tightly curled woolly scalp hair. The present study searched for disease-causing sequence variants in the genes in four Pakistani lineal consanguineous families exhibiting features of hypotrichosis or woolly hair. A haplotype...
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