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Why do children with junctional epidermolysis bullosa have fragile skin
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Why do children with junctional epidermolysis bullosa have fragile skin

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Because of a mutation in the COL7A1 gene which is the gene that provides the body with instructions for making the protein that form the pieces of a larger protein that makes collagen
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