“…KLHL24 is widely expressed in tissues other than skin, including brain, heart, skeletal muscle, kidney, liver, lung, and pancreas, with many tissues showing higher expression than skin (He et al, 2016;Lin et al, 2016 In addition to an earlier case report (Yenamandra et al, 2018), Schwieger-Briel et al (2018) report a cohort of 20 EBS patients with the known KLHL24 missense mutations in which a strikingly high percentage of patients suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM): 85% had evidence of cardiac involvement with either elevated cardiac biomarkers or proven DCM (8/20 patients, 40%), leading to death at an early age in two patients. DCM may be a final common pathway of various cardiac pathologies; however, in all reported patients no signs of other causes were found.…”