AREDYLD stands for acral renal ectodermal dysplasia lipoatrophic diabetes. AREDLYD is categorized as a rare disease, meaning it affects fewer than 200,000 people in the American population at any given time.

AREDYLD syndrome
AREDYLD syndrome is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner

It was characterized in 1983.[1] A second case was identified in 1992.[2]

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  1. ^ Pinheiro M, Freire-Maia N, Chautard-Freire-Maia E, Araujo L, Liberman B (1983). "AREDYLD: a syndrome combining an acrorenal field defect, ectodermal dysplasia, lipoatrophic diabetes, and other manifestations". Am J Med Genet. 16 (1): 29–33. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320160106. PMID 6638067.
  2. ^ Breslau-Siderius E, Toonstra J, Baart J, Koppeschaar H, Maassen J, Beemer F (1992). "Ectodermal dysplasia, lipoatrophy, diabetes mellitus, and amastia: a second case of the AREDYLD syndrome". Am J Med Genet. 44 (3): 374–7. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320440321. PMID 1488989.

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