Abstract: The patients with diabetes are often accompanied with some dermatoses in which the pathogenesis is not clear. It has been demonstrated that some dermatoses related to diabetes, such as psoriasis, vitiligo, acanthosis, have the same susceptibility genes as diabetes. The susceptibility genes of these dermatoses related to diabetes in recent 5 years are reviewed in this article.

Key words: diabetes mellitus, skin diseases related to diabetes mellitus, susceptibility genes