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Darier disease

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
Darier disease is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and affects both men and women. People with the condition have a fifty per cent chance of passing Darier disease on to their children. Sometimes Darier disease appears 'out of the blue' in families without a history of the condition.

Prenatal diagnosis
Not available.

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Medical text written November 2003 by Contact a Family. Approved November 2003 by Dr S Burge. Last updated April 2006 by Dr S Burge, Assistant Director of Clinical Studies and Consultant Dermatologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.

 

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