Congenital hair loss disorders: Rare, but not too rare

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-10

  Shimomura, Yutaka ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

hair follicle; hypotrichosis; LIPH; monilethrix; woolly hair

Indexed keywords

DESMOCOLLIN; DESMOGLEIN; DESMOGLEIN 4; KERATIN; LIPASE H; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; P CADHERIN; PHOSPHATIDIC ACID SELECTIVE PHOSPHOLIPASE A1 ALPHA; PHOSPHOLIPASE A1; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATRICHIA WITH POPULAR LESION; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT WOOLLY HAIR; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE WOOLLY HAIR; CARVAJAL SYNDROME; CONGENITAL HAIR LOSS DISORDER; CONGENITAL HYPOTRICHOSIS; CONGENITAL SKIN DISEASE; DESMOSOME; DYSTROPHY; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA ECTRODACTYLY AND MACULAR DYSTROPHY SYNDROME; ECTRODACTYLY; GENERALIZED HYPOTRICHOSIS SIMPLEX; GENODERMATOSIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR LOSS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEREDITARY HYPOTRICHOSIS SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPOTRICHOSIS; HYPOTRICHOSIS WITH JUVENILE MACULAR DYSTROPHY; KERATINIZATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MONILETHRIX; NAIL DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PURE HAIR AND NAIL ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SCANTY HAIR; SKIN FRAGILITY;

CADHERINS; DESMOSOMES; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPOTRICHOSIS; KERATINS; LIPID METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84855351712     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2011.01395.x     Document Type: Review

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