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Apr
29
2019

Precision Diagnostics for Inherited Skin Diseases

When: Monday, April 29, 2019
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Hughes Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student

Contact: Chernise Bailey-Turner   (312) 503-4883

Group: Feinberg School of Medicine Events

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Skin Biology & Disease Resource-based Center & Driskill Graduate Program

Mutations in ~1000 genes can impact on skin phenotype and therefore making accurate diagnoses in patients with inherited skin diseases can be very challenging. This lecture will show how a combination of next generation sequencing technologies and more traditional clinical skills can be used to dissect out new skin disease genes, discover double gene pathologies, and explain complex skin phenotypes. These data can improve clinical care with emerging examples of more personalised pre-emptive patient management and targeted therapies.

 

John McGrath, MD, FRCP, FMedSci
Mary Dunhill Chair in Cutaneous Medicine Academic
Head of St. John’s Institute of Dermatology
King’s College London

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