Website Creator

Mark Eisner

Newcastle University

Collaborators

Neil Rajan

Newcastle University

Masashi Akiyama

Department of Dermatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Mandy Aldwin-Easton

Ichthyosis Support Group, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, UK

Christine Bodemer

Department of Dermatology, Reference Center for Genodermatoses, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Paris, France

Keith Choate

Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Judith Fischer

Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine and Center for Cornification Disorders, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Antoni Gostynski

Department of Dermatology, Maastricht University Medical Center and GROW Research Institute for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Céline Granier Tournier

Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, Dermatology Department, CHU Toulouse, Paul Sabatier University, Occitanie, Toulouse, France

Ángela Hernández-Martín

Department of Dermatology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain

Alain Hovnanian

INSERM UMR 1163, Laboratory of genetic skin diseases, Imagine Institute of Genetic Diseases, University Paris Cité, Paris, France

Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto

Department of Dermatology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

Juliette Mazereeuw-Hautier

Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, Dermatology Department, CHU Toulouse, Paul Sabatier University, Occitanie, Toulouse, France

Edel A O’Toole

Department of Dermatology, Royal London Hospital and Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Amy S Paller

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Matthias Schmuth

Department of Dermatology, Medical University Innsbruck and Karl Landsteiner Institute for Paediatic Dermatology and Rare Diseases, Innsbruck, Austria

Janice Schwartz

Pachyonychia Congenita Project, Holladay, Utah, United States

Eli Sprecher

Division of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Gianluca Tadini

Center for Cutaneous Inherited Diseases, Pediatric Dermatology, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Joyce Teng

Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA

Source papers

Every disorder, clinical description and photograph in this database is taken from the following consensus papers, published in the British Journal of Dermatology.

  1. Overview

    Hernández-Martín Á, Paller AS, Sprecher E and others. A proposal for a new pathogenesis-guided classification for inherited epidermal differentiation disorders. British Journal of Dermatology 2025; 193(3): 544–548.

    doi:10.1093/bjd/ljaf065

  2. nEDD

    Akiyama M, Choate K, Hernández-Martín Á and others. Nonsyndromic epidermal differentiation disorders: a new classification toward pathogenesis-based therapy. British Journal of Dermatology 2025; ljaf154.

    doi:10.1093/bjd/ljaf154

  3. sEDD

    Paller AS, Teng J, Mazereeuw-Hautier J and others. Syndromic epidermal differentiation disorders: a new classification towards pathogenesis-based therapy. British Journal of Dermatology 2025; ljaf123.

    doi:10.1093/bjd/ljaf123

  4. pEDD

    Sprecher E, Ishida-Yamamoto A, Schwartz J and others. Palmoplantar epidermal differentiation disorders: a new classification toward pathogenesis-based therapy. British Journal of Dermatology 2025; 193(3): 364–380.

    doi:10.1093/bjd/ljaf054

All clinical photographs on this site are reproduced from these papers and are credited to their source on each image.