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Sabinas brittle hair syndrome - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Affection, Affliction, Ailment, Allergy, Atrophy, Blight, Complaint, Complication, Condition, Defect, Deformity, Disability, Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Endemic |
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Sabinas brittle hair syndrome, also called brittle hair-mental deficit syndrome is a hereditary disease. Symptoms are brittle hair, mild mental retardation and nail dysplasia. The syndrome was first observed in Sabinas, a small community in northern Mexico.
The principal biochemical features of the illness are reduced hair cystine levels, increased copper/zinc ratio, and presence of arginosuccinic acid in the blood and urine.
The syndrome is familial with parental consanguinity and is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait.
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