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Netherton syndrome is a rare hereditary disorder of keratinization. It was described by Comèl (1949) in 1949 and Netherton (1958) in 1958. The syndrome is sometimes called Comèl-Netherton syndrome (De Felipe et al. 1997). The incidence is about 1 in 200,000 (Bitoun et al. 2002b).

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Chen, H. (2017). Netherton Syndrome. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2401-1_175

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