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The skin barrier

Bricks of corneocyte and mortar of ceramide. Filaggrin mutations break the mortar, and they are the strongest known genetic risk for eczema — and for the allergies that follow it.

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Bricks of corneocyte and mortar of ceramide. Filaggrin mutations break the mortar, and they are the strongest known genetic risk for eczema — and for the allergies that follow it.

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