title: The scleroatrophic syndrome of Huriez.
abstract: We have examined 14 of 28 members of a four-generation family, 10 of whom demonstrated the clinical features of the scleroatrophic syndrome of Huriez, a cancer-prone dermatosis. Several members of this family demonstrated additional features, previously unrecorded in this syndrome, including poikiloderma-like changes on the nose, flexion contractures of the little finger, a distinctive little finger nodule, and telangiectasia on the lips. Genetic linkage was excluded to distal chromosome 4q (LOD score-4.399 at theta = 0.001). This concurs with the recent reappraisal study of one of the two original families described by Huriez, in which no evidence of linkage between this syndrome and the MNSs erythrocytic system (mapped to 4q28-q31) was found. This is the first report of a family from the U.K. with this syndrome.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Dermatology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust, Scotland, U.K.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Kavanagh
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Jardine
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Peachey
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Berker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001284:Atrophy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip; D008126:Lod Score; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009264:Nails, Malformed; D010375:Pedigree; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012868:Skin Abnormalities; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome; D013684:Telangiectasis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology