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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
Volume 137, Issue 5, Pages E67-E71Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2016.04.039
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- National Institutes of Health [AR042047, AR044232, CA160255]
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The abundance of keratin proteins and the filaments they form in surface epithelia has long been appreciated. This said, the remarkable diversity of keratin proteins and the notion that they are encoded by one of the largest gene families in the human genome has come to the fore relatively recently, coinciding with the sequencing of whole genomes. This complexity has generated some practical challenges, notably in terms of nomenclature and tractability. More importantly, however, studies of keratin have seeded the discovery of the genetic basis for a large number of genodermatoses and continue to provide a unique perspective on and insight into epithelial cells and tissues, whether normal or diseased.
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