Alan Lyell Centre for Dermatology, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.
Clin Med (Lond). 2009 Dec;9(6):591-2. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-6-591.
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.
近几十年来,遗传性皮肤疾病的发现为皮肤生物学提供了新的见解,在某些情况下还允许进行预防性产前诊断,但将这些知识应用于缓解或治愈仍然是一个诱人的前景。