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- Title
Partial dominance of a keratin 14 mutation in epidermolysis bullosa simplex--increased severity of disease in a homozygote.
- Authors
Hu, Z L; Smith, L; Martins, S; Bonifas, J M; Chen, H; Epstein, E H, Jr
- Abstract
Epidermolysis bullosa simplex is a disease in which keratin gene mutations cause the production of defective intermediate filaments, which leads in turn to epidermal basal cell fragility and blistering. The inheritance in nearly all kindreds is autosomal dominant, most kindreds have missense mutations, and the encoded proteins appear to exert a dominant negative function. One previously reported patient with generalized blistering had a fully dominant mutation of keratin 5; in that kindred a homozygote was affected no more severely than the heterozygotes. By contrast we report here a keratin 14 mutation that causes blistering limited to the hands and feet in heterozygotes, but homozygotes have more severe, widespread blistering of the skin and mucous membranes. Thus keratin gene mutations may be not only fully recessive or fully dominant but also partially dominant as well.
- Publication
The Journal of investigative dermatology, 1997, Vol 109, Issue 3, p360
- ISSN
0022-202X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12336051