| Title: | Integrative analysis for genetic and clinical signatures for common and rare skin diseases |
| Lead Institution: | University of Michigan |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Matthew Patrick |
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Skin is the largest human organ; skin diseases affect >30% of the population and significantly affect patients' quality of life. Many skin conditions have strong genetic components, and previous studies have utilized different case/control-based cohorts to unravel the genetic components. However, up to now, there has been very limited study aiming to provide a comprehensive survey to understand the shared and unique features underlying the broad spectrum of the skin conditions. We will utilize clinical and molecular data available from the UK Biobank to address this challenge, investigating the skin diseases present in the UK Biobank in terms of their environmental factors, comorbidities, drug prescriptions, mental health and mobility. Furthermore, as additional genetic data is added to the UK Biobank, we will focus our efforts on identifying the genetic determinants of rare skin diseases, verifying previously suggested genetic loci as well as discovering potential new ones. Our project is expected to last 5 years, and proceeds in stages, starting with cataloging the diseases in the UK Biobank in terms of their health records before focusing more on the relationship between these health records and genetics as the project progresses. We will make summaries of our results available through publications and our analysis pipeline deposited in open-source platform.1 Publication
| Pub ID | Title | Author(s) | Year | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10429 | Enhanced rare disease mapping for phenome-wide genetic association in the UK Biobank | Matthew T. Patrick (+5) | 2022 | Genome Medicine |
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