A family with diffuse partial woolly hair.
We report a family of six individuals with an abnormality of scalp hair characterized by shorter, finer, kinky hairs interspersed with normal hair, throughout the scalp. The abnormality had gone unnoticed in four of the six individuals. Two complained of thinning of the scalp hair.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006201:Hair Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010375:Pedigree