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SUBMITTER: Rahman N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC378553 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 20020904 4
Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis (JHF) is an autosomal recessive condition characterized by multiple subcutaneous nodular tumors, gingival fibromatosis, flexion contractures of the joints, and an accumulation of hyaline in the dermis. We performed a genomewide linkage search in two families with JHF from the same region of the Indian state of Gujarat and identified a region of homozygosity on chromosome 4q21. Dense microsatellite analyses within this interval in five families with JHF who were from ...[more]