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September 2010 in “American Journal of Medical Genetics - Part A” A Turkish family with sparse hair and eyebrow loss has a mutation in the U2HR gene linked to Marie Unna hereditary hypotrichosis.
Skin cells can naturally limit the growth of cancerous changes by balancing cell renewal and differentiation.
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