Comorbidity of bathing suit ichthyosis and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2 A in a Tunisian patient revealed by Whole Exome Sequencing.

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Elevated rates of consanguinity and inbreeding are responsible for the high prevalence of recessively inherited diseases among inbred populations including Tunisia. In addition, the co-occurrence of two of these conditions, called also comorbidity, within the same individual or in members of the same family are often described in Tunisia which is challenging for diagnosis. The high throughput sequencing has...

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