# X-linked ichthyosis

> skin condition caused by the hereditary deficiency of the steroid sulfatase (STS) enzyme that affects 1 in 2000 to 1 in 6000 males

**Wikidata**: [Q3804555](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3804555)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-linked_ichthyosis)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/x-linked-ichthyosis


## References

1. Disease Ontology
2. Skin Barrier Function Is Not Impaired and Kallikrein 7 Gene Polymorphism Is Frequently Observed in Korean X-linked Ichthyosis Patients Diagnosed by Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization and Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization.
3. Behavioural and psychiatric phenotypes in female carriers of genetic mutations associated with X-linked ichthyosis
4. Role of cholesterol sulfate in epidermal structure and function: Lessons from X-linked ichthyosis
5. In vivo confocal microscopy of pre-Descemet corneal dystrophy associated with X-linked ichthyosis: a case report
6. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
7. Isolation and characterization of a steroid sulfatase cDNA clone: genomic deletions in patients with X-chromosome-linked ichthyosis
8. [Identifiers.org](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/collections/MIR:00000233)
9. UMLS 2023