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Incontinentia Pigmenti

What are the causes?

IP is caused by mutations in the NEMO gene on the X chromosome also known as the IKBKG gene.

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Medical text written October 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved October 2005 by Dr H Stewart, Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Lead Clinician, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK. Additional ophthalmic information written March 2006 by Mr C. E. Willoughby, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK and Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

 

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