title: Molecular genetics of the skin: the implications of understanding.
abstract: During recent decades, discoveries in genetic skin disease have produced insights into the biology of the skin, and in some cases permitted preventive prenatal diagnosis, but application of this knowledge in palliation or cure remains a tantalising prospect.
authors.affiliation: Alan Lyell Centre for Dermatology, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. colin.munro@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
authors.forename: Colin S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Munro
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000379:methods*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000235:genetics*