Expression signature of epidermolysis bullosa simplex
✍ Scribed by Mbarka Bchetnia; Marie-Lou Tremblay; Georgette Leclerc; Audrey Dupérée; Julie Powell; Catherine McCuaig; Charles Morin; Valérie Legendre-Guillemin; Catherine Laprise
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Volume
- 131
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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## Abstract As part of the U.K. National Epidermolysis Bullosa Register, we have systematically recorded clinical information on 130 (77%) of the 168 known Scottish epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS) sufferers. Three subtypes of EBS were recognized: Dowling–Meara (EBS-DM), Weber–Cockayne (EBS-WC)
Plectin is a cytoskeletal linker protein that has a dumbbell-like structure with a long central rod and N-and C-terminal globular domains. Mutations in the gene encoding plectin (PLEC1) cause two distinct autosomal recessive subtypes of epidermolysis bullosa (EB): EB simplex with muscular dystrophy