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    Glossary Specificity

    ability to correctly identify those without a condition

    Specificity refers to the ability of a test or treatment to correctly identify those without a particular condition or trait. In the context of hair and alopecia, a diagnostic test with high specificity would accurately identify individuals who do not have alopecia, minimizing false positives. This is crucial for ensuring that only those who truly need treatment receive it, avoiding unnecessary interventions for others.

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    1. Specificity of anti-SSB as a diagnostic marker for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine · 2013 · 17 citations
    2. P077 Updates on trichoscopy in diagnosing scalp disorders: a systematic review of diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity British Journal of Dermatology · 2025
    3. Dissection of a Complex Enhancer Element: Maintenance of Keratinocyte Specificity but Loss of Differentiation Specificity Molecular and Cellular Biology · 2002 · 42 citations
    4. Organ Specificity in Autoimmune Diseases: Thyroid and Islet Autoimmunity in Alopecia Areata The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2015 · 32 citations
    5. Probing Keratinocyte and Differentiation Specificity of the Human K5 Promoter in Vitro and in Transgenic Mice Molecular and Cellular Biology · 1993 · 133 citations
    6. Probing keratinocyte and differentiation specificity of the human K5 promoter in vitro and in transgenic mice. Molecular and Cellular Biology · 1993 · 79 citations
    7. Regulation of Receptor Binding Specificity of FGF9 by an Autoinhibitory Homodimerization Structure · 2017 · 24 citations
    8. Rhodamin B Stain for Keratin: Evaluation of its Specificity and its Application in Dermal Pathology Journal of Cutaneous Pathology · 1980 · 9 citations
    9. Lack of specificity of cytokeratin-15 loss in scarring alopecias Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2017 · 5 citations
    10. Skin regional specification and higher-order <i>HoxC</i> regulation Science Advances · 2025 · 3 citations
    11. Comparison of Efficacy and Specificity in Cancer‐Targeting Prodrug Conjugates ˜The œFASEB journal · 2022 · 1 citations
    12. Unmasking Chemokine‐Inducing Specificity in Oligosaccharide Biomaterial to Promote Hair Growth (Adv. Mater. 6/2024) Advanced Materials · 2024
    13. Root hair specification and its growth in response to nutrients Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca · 2021 · 2 citations
    14. Fate Before Function: Specification of the Hair Follicle Niche Occurs Prior to its Formation and Is Progenitor Dependent bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2018 · 2 citations
    15. 1358 PRC1 fine-tunes gene repression and activation to safeguard skin epithelium development and stem cell specification Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 2018 · 1 citations
    16. A notch above bowl: Specification of niche cells in the Drosophila testis ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania) · 2011 · 1 citations
    17. 0882 Patterning and regional specification of hairy skin Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 2025
    18. Multi-scale modeling for cell fate specification during regeneration and development eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2020
    19. 869 The specification of Merkel cell in the back skin and glabrous paw skin is controlled by FGFR2-meditated signaling Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 2019
    20. 864 Catalytic-dependent and -independent activities of Polycomb repressive complex 1 differentially regulate skin stem cell specification Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 2017
    21. Venus trap in the mouse embryo reveals distinct molecular dynamics underlying specification of first embryonic lineages EMBO Reports · 2015 · 25 citations
    22. Telomere dysfunction impairs epidermal stem cell specification and differentiation by disrupting BMP/pSmad/P63 signaling PLOS genetics · 2019 · 19 citations
    23. From structural resilience to cell specification — Intermediate filaments as regulators of cell fate ˜The œFASEB journal · 2020 · 9 citations
    24. Stabilization of β-catenin promotes melanocyte specification at the expense of the Schwann cell lineage bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020
    25. Le tégument des vertèbres et la spécification de l'épithélium cornéen HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2010
    26. Tritiated Thymidine: Effect of Decomposition by Self-Radiolysis on Specificity as a Tracer for DNA Synthesis Science · 1967 · 54 citations
    27. Author response: Crosstalk with keratinocytes causes GNAQ oncogene specificity in melanoma 2021
    28. Editor's evaluation: Crosstalk with keratinocytes causes GNAQ oncogene specificity in melanoma 2021
    29. Decision letter: Crosstalk with keratinocytes causes GNAQ oncogene specificity in melanoma 2021
    30. Peer Review #2 of "Human hair shaft proteomic profiling: individual differences, site specificity and cuticle analysis (v0.1)" 2014