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A missense mutation in type VII collagen in two affected siblings with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
Nature genetics - 1 May 1993
Christiano A M, Greenspan D S, Hoffman G G, Zhang X, Tamai Y, Lin A N, Dietz H C, Hovnanian A, Uitto J
Abstract excerpt
Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is a severe mutilating genodermatosis. Previous ultrastructural demonstrations of altered anchoring fibrils, and recent genetic linkage analyses have suggested that type VII collagen, the major component of anchoring fibrils, is a candidate gene. We have identified a homozygous methionine-to-lysine mutation in two affected siblings, while their unaffected mother and...
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