Nusrit Shaheen Nusrit Shaheen Nusrit "Nelly" Shaheen (born 1984) is the longest-living survivor of harlequin-type ichthyosis in the United Kingdom and one of the longest-living in the world. She lives in Coventry, and was one of nine children. Four of her siblings had harlequin, but died at a young age. Many survivors of harlequin are predicted to die before or during their teens, but Nelly is now in her 30s and contributing to living a long, healthy and rewarding life. Nelly's medical condition, harlequin-type ichthyosis, is a seriously rare genetic condition which means her skin forms up to 10x more than the
Heterogeneous condition the medicine. A genetic or allelic heterogeneous condition is one where the same disease or condition can be caused, or contributed to, by varying different genes or alleles. In clinical trials and statistics the concepts of homogeneous and heterogeneous populations is important. The same applies for epidemiology Heterogeneous condition Heterogeneous medical condition in medicine are those medical conditions which have several etiologies, like hepatitis or diabetes. Medical conditions are normally defined pathologically (liver inflammation) or clinically (excessive urination) and not etiologically, and therefore it is normal to have more than one cause for them. The word is used as an