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- Also known as Harlequin Type Ichthyosis
- Incidence: 1 in 1 million
- Survival rate: 50%
- Cause: ABCA12 gene mutation
- Infant born with hard, thick skin
- Affects 7 children in UK
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Harlequin Ichthyosis is rare genetic skin disorder that involves excessive skin growth. A person inflicted with this severe disease grows the same amount of skin in one day that an average person grows in two weeks. Harlequin Ichthyosis results in problems with temperature regulation, dehydration, and the body's ability to fight infections. Only about fifty percent of infants born with the disorder survive.
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Harlequin Ichthyosis News and Information
- Wikipedia: Harlequin Type Ichthyosis
- Genetics Home Reference: Harlequin Ichthyosis
- Telegraph: The girls with too much skin (March 21, 2008)
- FOXNews.com: Deadly Disease Causes Sisters to Grow Too Much Skin (March 18, 2008)
- JournalLive: Little Ellie really is one in a million... (July 3, 2007)
- "The one-in-a-million condition, which has no cure, still baffles doctors across the world. The oldest survivor is in her late teens and lives in the South of England."
- KGTV (San Diego): Man Survives Rare Skin-Shedding Disease (November 15, 2004)
Harlequin Ichthyosis on Amazon
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Harlequin fetus: An entry from Thomson Gale's <i>Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 2nd ed.</i> - $2.95
Information on many genetic disorders, and the frequent new findings on them, has been extremely difficult to come by—until now. The “Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders” addres...Amazon
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Harlequin Ichthyosis - A Bibliography and Dictionary for Physicians, Patients, and Genome Researchers - $28.95
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Harlequin Ichthyosis Questions
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