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Medical and neurobehavioural phenotypes in carriers of X-linked ichthyosis-associated genetic deletions in the UK Biobank.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2020
Brcic Lucija, Underwood Jack Fg, Kendall Kimberley M, Caseras Xavier, Kirov George, Davies William
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: X-linked ichthyosis (XLI) is an uncommon dermatological condition resulting from a deficiency of the enzyme steroid sulfatase (STS), often caused by X-linked deletions spanning STS. Some medical comorbidities have been identified in XLI cases, but small samples of relatively young patients has limited this. STS is highly expressed in subcortical brain structures, and males with XLI and female deletion...
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