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Please describe the name of the genetic disease where you can't sweat?

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CIPA or HSAN IV: There may be others, but congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is one such disease. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive form, meaning that an affected individual must get one gene from each parent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/congenital_insensitivity_to_pain_with_anhidrosis.

Answered 10/7/2013

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