The British Journal of Psychiatry 163: 109-110 (1993)
© 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
J Korner, M Rietschel, MM Nothen, CM Wilk, R Bauer, P Propping and HJ Moller
Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany.
We report on a family with co-occurrence of affective disorder and Hailey-Hailey disease in two brothers and the mother. The putative chromosomal locus of Hailey-Hailey disease, which is a rare dominantly inherited dermatosis, may be a promising candidate region for genetic studies in affective disorder.