Pure hair-nail ectodermal dysplasia maps to chromosome 12p11.1-q21.1 in a consanguineous Pakistani family

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 502-505

  Naeem, M ^a,b   John, P ^a   Ali, G ^a   Ahmad, W ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SPLICING; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NAIL DYSPLASIA; PAKISTAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EPITHELIUM;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; KERATINS; MALE; MUTATION; NAILS; NAILS, MALFORMED; PAKISTAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 34547822431     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2007.02413.x     Document Type: Article

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