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Researchers found that the blotchy skin condition develops when an abundance of a protein called cathelicidin is present.
By Alison Williams, Times Staff Writer
4:40 PM PDT, August 5, 2007

Researchers have solved a medical mystery that has eluded them for hundreds of years, demonstrating that an abundance of abnormal skin proteins causes the blotchy skin condition called rosacea.

In a study published Sunday in the online edition of the journal Nature Medicine, scientists showed that people with rosacea have too much of a protein called cathelicidin that was processed incorrectly.

The results could aid researchers in designing an effective treatment for the disease, which affects 14 million people in the United States.

"We haven't had this kind of important finding in the study of rosacea for a long time," said dermatologist Jenny Kim of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

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