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Mutation in KANK2, encoding a sequestering protein for steroid receptor coactivators, causes keratoderma and woolly hair.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jun 2014
Ramot Yuval, Molho-Pessach Vered, Meir Tomer, Alper-Pinus Ruslana, Siam Ihab, Tams Spiro, Babay Sofia, Zlotogorski Abraham
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BACKGROUND: The combination of palmoplantar keratoderma and woolly hair is uncommon and reported as part of Naxos and Carvajal syndromes, both caused by mutations in desmosomal proteins and associated with cardiomyopathy. We describe two large consanguineous families with autosomal-recessive palm...
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