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SUBMITTER: Yeon HB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1288212 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yeon H B HB Lindor N M NM Seidman J G JG Seidman C E CE
American journal of human genetics 20000321 4
Pyoderma gangrenosum, cystic acne, and aseptic arthritis are clinically distinct disorders within the broad class of inflammatory diseases. Although this triad of symptoms is rarely observed in a single patient, a three-generation kindred with autosomal-dominant transmission of these three disorders has been reported as "PAPA syndrome" (MIM 604416). We report mapping of a disease locus for familial pyoderma gangrenosum-acne-arthritis to the long arm of chromosome 15 (maximum two-point LOD score, ...[more]