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October 24, 2025

Determing Severity in Epidermolysis Bullosa

An article published in January 2025 shared a more accurate way of identifying severity in EB. 


Mild EB:

Splice B/Missense

Missense/Missense


Moderate EB:

PTC/Splice B

Splice A/Splice B

Splice A/Missense

Splice B/Splice B


Severe EB:

PTC/PTC

PTC/Splice A

Splice A/Splice A


PTC= premature termination codon

PTC AKA Nonsense 

Splice A: a downstream PTC mutation 

Spice B: an in-frame Exon Skipping

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