Filaggrin haploinsufficiency among patients with dermatitis from a tertiary referral centre: Early findings and possible phenotype

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 182-183

  Thyssen, Jacob P ^a   Carlsen, Berit C ^a   Johansen, Jeanne D ^a   Meldgaard, Michael ^a   Szecsi, Pal B ^a   Stender, Steen ^a   Menné, Torkil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Clinical patients; Filaggrin; Hand eczema

Indexed keywords

FILAGGRIN; POLYSTYRENE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HAND ECZEMA; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LICHENOID ERUPTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; NULL ALLELE; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; PALMAR DERMATOGLYPHICS; PALMAR HYPERLINEARITY; PATCH TEST; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRATIFICATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VESICULAR RASH; ADOLESCENT; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ECZEMA; GENETICS; HAND DERMATOSES; HAPLOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HAND DERMATOSES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649124710     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2009.01687.x     Document Type: Article

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