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Global insights into keloid formation: An international systematic review of regional genetic risk factors and commonalities.
Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society - 1 Jan 2000
James Andrew J, Torres-Guzman Ricardo A, Chaker Sara C, Sigel Matthew E, Perdikis Galen, Supp Dorothy M, Dale Slater Elizabeth L
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Keloid disorder is a morbid and disfiguring benign fibroproliferative disease with a higher incidence in groups with darker skin pigmentation. Predicting keloidogenesis in patients is difficult with treatment primarily aimed at preventing further scar expansion and improving aesthetics without addressing their unknown underlying pathophysiology. We aimed to identify potential genetic predispositions to keloid...
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