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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.