“…In the ma-jority of cases, autosomal recessive inheritance is involved and the simple Mendelian way of inheritance is applicable [17]. Congenital canine skin diseases include: primary seborrhoea, ichthyosis, hereditary nasal parakeratosis, dermatomyositis, colour dilution alopecia, skin mucinosis, dermoid sinus, lethal acrodermatitis, acral mutilation syndrome, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, ichthyosiform dermatosis, bullous epidermolysis, exfoliative dermal lupus erythematosus, congenital footpad hyperkeratosis and sebaceous adenitis [2,4,14,18,21,22,27,33,35,40,42,47,48,52].…”