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ALTHOUGH several hundred dominantly inherited human malformations have been described1, the mode of action of the mutant genes responsible for them is, in nearly all cases completely unknown, because of the lack of suitable biochemical markers. Here we describe a well defined biochemical abnormality in the keratin of mice bearing the dominantly inherited Naked trait.
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TENENHOUSE, H., GOLD, R., KACHRA, Z. et al. Biochemical marker in dominantly inherited ectodermal malformation. Nature 251, 431–432 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251431a0
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