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Parental mosaic cutaneous-gonadal GJB2 mutation: From epidermal nevus to inherited ichthyosis-deafness syndrome.
The Journal of dermatology - 1 Mar 2022
Cohen-Barak Eran, Mwassi Bannan, Zagairy Fadia, Danial-Farran Nada, Khayat Morad, Tatour Yasmin, Ziv Michael
Abstract excerpt
Ichthyosis and deafness syndrome is a group of devastating genodermatoses caused by heterozygous mutations in GJB2, encoding the gap junction protein connexin 26. These syndromes are characterized by severe skin disease, hearing loss, recurrent infections, and cutaneous neoplasms. Cutaneous somatic mutations in the same gene are associated with porokeratotic eccrine ostial dermal duct nevus. Here we report a...
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