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Congenital cutis laxa and lysyl oxidase deficiency
1 Feb 1997
Abstract excerpt
We report two phenotypically similar patients with primary cutis laxa associated with deficiency of lysyl oxidase, an extracellular copper enzyme the gene for which is located on chromosome 5. Previous reports of this condition have had characteristic occipital projections, abnormality of copper metabolism and X-linked inheritance. The two reported patients have no occipital projections, normal copper metabolism,...
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