Mosaicism due to postzygotic mutations in women with focal dermal hypoplasia

Focal dermal hypoplasia (FDH, Goltz syndrome, MIM #305600) constitutes a rare multisystem genetic disorder of the skin, skeleton, teeth and eyes with considerable variation in the clinical features. FDH is transmitted as an X‐linked dominant trait and is caused by mutations in PORCN. In male children, hemizygous PORCN mutations are lethal in utero. Around 300 cases have been reported in the literature to date. About 10% of them are male patients...