title: Monilethrix: one step more on the ladder of cytogenetics.
abstract: Monilethrix is one of the hair shaft abnormalities with increased fragility of hair. Here we describe a ten-year-old girl with a history of hair loss and breakage of hair since three months of age, associated with keratosis pilaris along with an abnormal microscopic finding of a hair shaft. A cytogenetic study of the patient showed an unexpectedly high degree of Acrocentric association.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Venereology, Leprology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India.
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ambujam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Srikanth
authors.forename: An
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uma