Odonto onycho dysplasia with alopecia

The following summary is from Orphanet, a European reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs.

Odonto-onycho dysplasia-alopecia syndrome is a rare, genetic ectodermal dysplasia syndrome characterized by almost total alopecia with only sparse, thin, brittle, slow-growing scalp hair, fair and sparse eyebrows and eyelashes, absent axillary and pubic hair, fragile and brittle fingernails, thick and brittle toenails (both with a subungual corneal layer), hypodontia, microdontia, widely spaced teeth with hypoplastic enamel, mild palmoplantar keratosis, café-au-lait spots and areolae anomalies. There have been no further descriptions in the literature since 1985.

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Last updated: 6/1/2017

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