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Strategy for identification of sequence variants in COL7A1 and a novel 2-bp deletion mutation in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 1997
Christiano A M, Hoffman G G, Zhang X, Xu Y, Tamai Y, Greenspan D S, Uitto J
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The diagnostic hallmark of the dystrophic forms of epidermolysis bullosa (DEB), a group of heritable blistering skin diseases, is abnormalities in the anchoring fibrils at the dermal-epidermal basement membrane zone. Since type VII collagen is the major, if not the exclusive, component of the anc...
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