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SUBMITTER: Basel-Vanagaite L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1821100 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Basel-Vanagaite Lina L Attia Revital R Ishida-Yamamoto Akemi A Rainshtein Limor L Ben Amitai Dan D Lurie Raziel R Pasmanik-Chor Metsada M Indelman Margarita M Zvulunov Alex A Saban Shirley S Magal Nurit N Sprecher Eli E Shohat Mordechai M
American journal of human genetics 20070123 3
In this article, we describe a novel autosomal recessive ichthyosis with hypotrichosis syndrome, characterized by congenital ichthyosis associated with abnormal hair. Using homozygosity mapping, we mapped the disease locus to 11q24.3-q25. We screened the ST14 gene, which encodes matriptase, since transplantation of skin from matriptase(-/-)-knockout mice onto adult athymic nude mice has been shown elsewhere to result in an ichthyosislike phenotype associated with almost complete absence of erupt ...[more]