Absence of male-pattern baldness in men with X-linked recessive ichthyosis? A hypothesis to be challenged

Dermatology

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-232

  Happle, Rudolf ^a   Hoffmann, R ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baldness, male pattern; Ichthyosis, X linked recessive; Steroid sulfatase deficiency

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; STERYL SULFATASE;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; ICHTHYOSIS; MALE; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE INHERITANCE;

ALOPECIA; ARYLSULFATASES; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS, X-LINKED; MALE; STERYL-SULFATASE;

EID: 0032971857     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018120     Document Type: Short Survey

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