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X-linked ichthyosis without STS deficiency: clinical, genetical, and molecular studies.
American journal of medical genetics - 6 Nov 1995
Robledo R, Melis P, Schillinger E, Casciano I, Balazs I, Rinaldi A, Siniscalco M, Filippi G
Abstract excerpt
We report on a Sardinian pedigree with congenital ichthyosis associated with normal levels of steroid sulfatase and a normal molecular pattern, as detectable with a cDNA probe for the steroid sulfatase (STS) gene. Though the pattern of transmission of the disease is consistent with X-linked recessive inheritance, this form of ichthyosis was found to segregate independently of genetic polymorphisms detected by...
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