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Abstract
In phacomatosis pigmentokeratotica, papular nevus spilus coexists with nevus sebaceus. The disorder was thought to be a didymosis with early postzygotic recombination. In this issue, however, Groesser and co-workers provide a new concept. Both nevi originate from a single heterozygous HRAS mutation in a pluripotent progenitor cell. This new understanding has implications for other proposed examples of didymosis in humans.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23856930 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2013.74
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Invest Dermatol ISSN: 0022-202X Impact factor: 8.551