2020
Post‐zygotic ACTB mutations underlie congenital smooth muscle hamartomas
Atzmony L, Ugwu N, Zaki TD, Antaya RJ, Choate KA. Post‐zygotic ACTB mutations underlie congenital smooth muscle hamartomas. Journal Of Cutaneous Pathology 2020, 47: 681-685. PMID: 32170967, PMCID: PMC7943230, DOI: 10.1111/cup.13683.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCongenital smooth muscle hamartomaSmooth muscle hamartomaBecker's nevusMuscle hamartomaBecker nevus syndromeDirect sequencingHistopathological featuresHistopathological overlapBenign lesionsMosaic disordersPhenotypic spectrumNeviUnaffected tissueAffected tissuesHamartomaPost-zygotic mutationsHemihypertrophyEnrichment assayTissueMutationsACTB gene
2016
Intra-familial Variation in Clinical Phenotype of CARD14-related Psoriasis.
Eskin-Schwartz M, Basel-Vanagaite L, David M, Lagovsky I, Ben-Amitai D, Smirin-Yosef P, Atzmony L, Hodak E. Intra-familial Variation in Clinical Phenotype of CARD14-related Psoriasis. Acta Dermato Venereologica 2016, 96: 885-887. PMID: 26984337, DOI: 10.2340/00015555-2405.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIntra-familial variationClinical phenotypeDisease onsetHLA-C*0602Multifactorial chronic inflammatory diseaseVariability of clinical presentationTime of disease onsetEarly disease onsetChronic inflammatory diseaseAffected family membersCARD14 geneClinical presentationCoding region polymorphismsActivating mutationsSeverely affected individualsPsoriatic phenotypePustular typesInflammatory diseasesPsoriasisCARD14Region polymorphismsDisease expressionCo-segregationDiseaseOnset