APOCRINE GLAND SECRETION, VARIATION IN

General Information (adopted from Orphanet):

Synonyms, Signs: CERUMEN, VARIATION IN
COLOSTRUM SECRETION, VARIATION IN
AXILLARY ODOR, VARIATION IN
WET WAX
EAR WAX, WET/DRY
EWWD
WW
Number of Symptoms 5
OrphanetNr:
OMIM Id: 117800
ICD-10:
UMLs:
MeSH:
MedDRA:
Snomed:

Prevalence, inheritance and age of onset:

Prevalence: No data available.
Inheritance: Autosomal dominant inheritance
[Omim]
Age of onset:

Disease classification (adopted from Orphanet):

Parent Diseases: No data available.

Symptom Information: Sort by abundance 

1
(HPO:0000598) Abnormality of the ear 98 / 7739
2
(HPO:0003002) Breast carcinoma 23 / 7739
3
(HPO:0000006) Autosomal dominant inheritance 2518 / 7739
4
(OMIM) Positive correlation between wet ear wax and breast cancer 1 / 7739
5
(OMIM) Ear wax types (wet and dry) 1 / 7739

Associated genes:

ClinVar (via SNiPA)

Gene symbol Variation Clinical significance Reference

Additional Information:

Clinical Description OMIM In Japanese, Matsunaga (1962) described a dimorphism of ear wax, the 2 types being wet and dry. This variation has been studied extensively in Japan since at least 1934. Less attention has been given to this variation elsewhere, ...
Molecular genetics OMIM With the aim of further mapping of the ear wax locus, Yoshiura et al. (2006) performed genotyping in a case-control study of 64 Japanese individuals with dry ear wax and 54 with the wet type using 134 CA ...
Population genetics OMIM The aboriginal Ainu population of the Japanese island of Hokkaido has an exceptionally high frequency of the dominant wet ear wax phenotype compared to those of neighboring Asian populations (see Yoshiura et al., 2006). Sato et al. (2009) ...