A new variant of the ectodysplasin A receptor death domain gene associated with anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia in a Turkish family and its simple diagnosis by restriction fragment length polymorphism.

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Ectodermal dysplasia (ED), which exhibits a wide range of clinical symptoms, may be classified into three major types: hypohidrotic, anhidrotic, and hidrotic. A male child (proband) showing anhidrotic dysplasia was used as the subject of this study. The biopsy of the big toe revealed that the male child had no sweat glands. Genetic analysis of the patient revealed a mutation caused by a homozygous nucleotide...

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