Familial Keloid in Indian Scenario: Case Report and Review of Literature - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.2 No.7, July 2015

Familial Keloid in Indian Scenario: Case Report and Review of Literature ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1101578 1,903 Downloads 3,058 Views Citations

Author(s)

Snigdha Goyal¹, Isha Saini², Sunder Goyal³

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Pathology, Dr. RML Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
²Kalpna Chawla Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India.
³Department of Surgery, Kaplna Chawla Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India.

ABSTRACT

Keloid disease is a fibro proliferative skin tumor and occurs after a skin trauma in genetically vulnerable individuals. Etiology of keloid is unclear. Causative factors for keloid are increased familial aggregation, a higher prevalence in certain races, parallelism in identical twins, and alteration in gene expression. It appears that the surroundings activate the disease in genetically susceptible individuals. Several genes are considered responsible for keloid disease, but no single gene mutation has thus far been found to be responsible. Therefore, we should apply a combination of methods such as association, gene-gene interaction, epigenetics, linkage, gene expression, and protein analysis to find out the keloid etiology. Incidence of familial keloid is common in Africans but is uncommon in Indian population. It may be due to autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive inheritance.

KEYWORDS

Familial Keloid, Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive

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Goyal, S. , Saini, I. and Goyal, S. (2015) Familial Keloid in Indian Scenario: Case Report and Review of Literature. Open Access Library Journal, 2, 1-4. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1101578.

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