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Modulation of disease severity of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa by a splice site mutation in combination with a missense mutation in the COL7A1 gene.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Jul 1997
Winberg J O, Hammami-Hauasli N, Nilssen O, Anton-Lamprecht I, Naylor S L, Kerbacher K, Zimmermann M, Krajci P, Gedde-Dahl T, Bruckner-Tuderman L
Abstract excerpt
Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (EBD) is a clinically heterogeneous skin disorder, characterized by abnormal anchoring fibrils (AF) and loss of dermal-epidermal adherence. EBD has been linked to the COL7A1 gene at chromosome 3p21 which encodes collagen VII, the major component of the AF. Here we investigated two unrelated EBD families with different clinical phenotypes and novel combinations of recessive and...
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