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Autosomal recessive transmission of a rare KRT74 variant causes hair and nail ectodermal dysplasia: allelism with dominant woolly hair/hypotrichosis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Raykova Doroteya, Klar Joakim, Azhar Aysha, Khan Tahir Naeem, Malik Naveed Altaf, Iqbal Muhammad, Tariq Muhammad, Baig Shahid Mahmood, Dahl Niklas
Abstract excerpt
Pure hair and nail ectodermal dysplasia (PHNED) comprises a heterogeneous group of rare heritable disorders characterized by brittle hair, hypotrichosis, onychodystrophy and micronychia. Autosomal recessive (AR) PHNED has previously been associated with mutations in either KRT85 or HOXC13 on chromosome 12p11.1-q14.3. We investigated a consanguineous Pakistani family with AR PHNED linked to the keratin gene...
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