A recessive blistering of the skin usually accompanied by lack of hairs on the head, eyebrows and eyelashes, and partial pancreatic hyperplasia and thymus hypoplasia. The deficiency in zinc-binding is characteristic and causes low levels of zinc and alkaline phosphatase (a zinc metalloenzyme) in the plasma. The treatment with zinc is very successful. alkaline phosphatase, zinc fingers, skin disease, Wilson disease, Menke disease, hemochromatosis, hyperkincemia; Wang K et al 2002 Am J Hum Genet 71:66.
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(2008). Acrodermatitis Enteropathica (8q24.3). In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6754-9_165
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