SINCE the original description of Tay-Sach's disease in the eighties of the last century a group of allied nervous disorders has become recognized, the common pathological feature of which is a ubiquitous distention of the nerve cells with granules of a lipoid nature. Apart from a few anomalous forms it is customary to classify these amaurotic family idiocies according to the time of onset of t...

lamellar ichthyosis is one form of congenital autosomal recessive ichthyosis. to date, seven causative genes for arci have been identified. to understand further the genetic spectrum of the disease, we analyzed a four-generation iranian family with arci that had observable inheritance. exome sequencing data for one of the affected individuals with ichthyosis from a consanguineous iranian family...