Autosomal recessive transmission of a rare KRT74 variant causes hair and nail ectodermal dysplasia: allelism with dominant woolly hair/hypotrichosis.

Pure hair and nail ectodermal dysplasia (PHNED) comprises a heterogeneous group of rare heritable disorders characterized by brittle hair, hypotrichosis, onychodystrophy and micronychia. Autosomal recessive (AR) PHNED has previously been associated with mutations in either KRT85 or HOXC13 on chromos...

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Main Authors: Doroteya Raykova, Joakim Klar, Aysha Azhar, Tahir Naeem Khan, Naveed Altaf Malik, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Tariq, Shahid Mahmood Baig, Niklas Dahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24714551/?tool=EBI