Patients with Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Develop Squamous-Cell Carcinoma Regardless of Type VII Collagen Expression
โ Scribed by Pourreyron, Celine; Cox, Georgie; Mao, Xin; Volz, Andreas; Baksh, Nuzhat; Wong, Tracy; Fassihi, Hiva; Arita, Ken; O'Toole, Edel A; Ocampo-Candiani, Jorge
- Book ID
- 110049950
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Volume
- 127
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-202X
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## Communicated by Michel Goossens The Hallopeau-Siemens variant of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (HS-RDEB) is a severe inherited skin disease characterized by the absence of collagen type VII (COLVII) and anchoring fibrils (AF), caused by mutations in collagen type VII gene (COL7A1).