Pitfalls of Mapping a Large Turkish Consanguineous Family With Vertical Monilethrix Inheritance

    January 2009 in “ PubMed ”
    Figen Celep, Abdullah Üzümcü, F M Sonmez … Ahmet Karagüzel
    Studysummary In this study, researchers identified an autosomal dominant mutation (E402K) in exon 7 of the KRT86 gene as a cause of Monilethrix in a large family from Turkey.
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