Wooly hair
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Wooly hair is the presence of hair typical of those of sub-Saharan ancestry on people from other ethnic backgrounds, hair which, under the microscope, appears tightly coiled, and presents at birth or infancy usually as a solitary inherited trait in an autosomal dominant fashion.
See also
- Wooly hair nevus
- Naxos syndromeNaxos syndromeNaxos syndrome is a cutaneous condition characterized by a palmoplantar keratoderma...
- Striate palmoplantar keratoderma, woolly hair, and left ventricular dilated cardiomyopathy
- List of cutaneous conditions