Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 63, Issue 4 , Pages 607-641 , October 2010

Revised nomenclature and classification of inherited ichthyoses: Results of the First Ichthyosis Consensus Conference in Sorèze 2009

  • Vinzenz Oji, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Vinzenz Oji, MD, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Münster, Von-Esmarch-Str. 58, 48149 Münster, Germany.
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  • Gianluca Tadini, MD

      Affiliations

    • Centro Malattie Cutanee Ereditarie, Istituto di Scienze Dermatologiche, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Ospedale Maggiore, Milano, Italy
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  • Masashi Akiyama, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Claudine Blanchet Bardon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France
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  • Christine Bodemer, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital (Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris [APHP])–University Paris V, National Reference Centre for Genodermatoseis Centre de reference sur les Maladies Génétiques à Expression Cutanée, Paris, France
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  • Emmanuelle Bourrat, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France
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  • Philippe Coudiere, PharmD

      Affiliations

    • Pierre Fabre Dermatologie, Lavaur, France
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  • John J. DiGiovanna, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Dermatopharmacology, Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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  • Peter Elias, MD

      Affiliations

    • Dermatology, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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  • Judith Fischer, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France
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  • Philip Fleckman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Dermatology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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  • Michal Gina, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hospices Cantonaux–Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois, Service de Dermatologie des Hospices, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • John Harper, MD, FCRCP, FRCPCH

      Affiliations

    • Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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  • Takashi Hashimoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Ingrid Hausser, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Hans Christian Hennies, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cologne Center for Genomics, Division of Dermatogenetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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  • Daniel Hohl, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Hospices Cantonaux–Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois, Service de Dermatologie des Hospices, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Alain Hovnanian, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Genetics and Dermatology, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital (APHP)–University Paris V, Paris, France
    • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale U781, Paris, France
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  • Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Japan
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  • Witold K. Jacyk, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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  • Sancy Leachman, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • Irene Leigh, MD, FRCP, FMedSci

      Affiliations

    • Queen Mary and Westfield College, Centre for Cutaneous Research, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London Medical School Queen Mary, London, United Kingdom
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  • Juliette Mazereeuw-Hautier, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France
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  • Leonard Milstone, MD

      Affiliations

    • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Fanny Morice-Picard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology, National Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, Hôpital St André, Bordeaux, France
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  • Amy S. Paller, MS, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Dermatology and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Gabriele Richard, MD, FACMG

      Affiliations

    • GeneDx, Gaithersburg, Maryland
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  • Matthias Schmuth, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    • Department of Dermatology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • Hiroshi Shimizu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Eli Sprecher, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Maurice Van Steensel, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Maastricht University Medical Center and GROW Research School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Alain Taïeb, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology, National Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, Hôpital St André, Bordeaux, France
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  • Jorge R. Toro, MD

      Affiliations

    • Genetics Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
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  • Pierre Vabres, MD

      Affiliations

    • Université de Bourgogne, Department of Dermatology, Hôpital du Bocage, Dijon, France
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  • Anders Vahlquist, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Sciences, Dermatology and Venereology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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  • Mary Williams, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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  • Heiko Traupe, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

,Accepted 17 November 2009.

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 The accommodation and travel costs of the participants and the conference rooms of the Ichthyosis Consensus Conference were sponsored by the Laboratories Pierre Fabre, Castres, France. Moreover, our work is supported by the Network for Ichthyoses and Related Keratinization Disorders (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, GFGM01143901), the Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types (United States), and the Ichthyosis Patient Organization of Germany (Selbsthilfe Ichthyose e. V.).

 Conflicts of interest: None declared.

PII: S0190-9622(09)01487-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.11.020

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 63, Issue 4 , Pages 607-641 , October 2010

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