Geneskin

This section deals with the various clinical, laboratory and social aspects of the diseases in the five major groups of disorders (i.e. ectodermal dysplasias, and disorders of epithelial adhesion, keratinisation, connective tissue and DNA repair). Information on these pages is divided into two sub-sections.

• As a free user, particularly patients and their relatives, you will see a general description of each of the five major groups of disorders, together with details of European centres offering clinical, diagnostic and research services, ongoing clinical trials, patients' associations and related websites.
• As a registered user you will get more details: each disease has a dedicated page with more detailed clinical and laboratory descriptions, including key clinical features, diagnostic tests and procedures, tools for laboratory diagnosis. Research services, ongoing clinical trials, patients' associations and related websites are also reported. To become a registered user you need first to perform the registration, which in an automated task. Only after confirmation, signing into the website, you will get automatically access to the restricted informations.