title: Genetic linkage between the collagen type VII gene COL7A1 and pretibial epidermolysis bullosa with lichenoid features.
abstract: Pretibial epidermolysis bullosa is a rare form of dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. The disease was diagnosed after considerable delay in a large Belgian family and was remarkable for its late age at onset and its misleading clinical presentation in the proband, which strongly resembled keratosis lichenoides chronica. Both recessively and dominantly inherited forms of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa have been shown to be linked to the collagen type VII gene, COL7A1. Two-point linkage analysis with two intragenic polymorphisms (PvuII, AluI) in COL7A1 was performed. Strong genetic linkage between the disease in this family and COL7A1 was demonstrated by a lod score of 4.45 (theta = 0) for the AluI polymorphism. The observed intrafamilial variability of clinical phenotypes contradicts the presently proposed classification of dominantly inherited dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Naeyaert
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nuytinck
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Bie
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Beele
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kint
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Paepe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000483:Alleles; D002648:Child; D003094:Collagen / Q000235:genetics*; D016108:Epidermolysis Bullosa Dystrophica / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D007868:Leg Dermatoses / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics*; D017512:Lichenoid Eruptions / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D013977:Tibia
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen