Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Sparse body hair
HP:0002231
What it means
Sparseness of the body hair.
Rare diseases that can present with this32
Very common80–99%
23- 46,XY difference of sex development due to isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency
- Alopecia antibody deficiency
- Alopecia-epilepsy-pyorrhea-intellectual disability syndrome
- Alopecia-intellectual disability syndrome
- AREDYLD syndrome
- Atypical Werner syndrome
- Autosomal dominant hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
- Björnstad syndrome
- Dermoodontodysplasia
- Ectodermal dysplasia, trichoodontoonychial type
- EEM syndrome
- Hallermann-Streiff syndrome
- Hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, Halal type
- Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
- Hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia-renal defect syndrome
- Hypotrichosis simplex
- Intellectual disability-myopathy-short stature-endocrine defect syndrome
- Intermediate generalized junctional epidermolysis bullosa
- Neonatal ichthyosis-sclerosing cholangitis syndrome
- Normosmic congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
- Odonto-onycho dysplasia-alopecia syndrome
- Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata
- X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
Common30–79%
6The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Limited body hair · Little body hair · Sparse to absent body hair
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