Patent ID: 9747685
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: C12Q,G06T

Claim:
1. A method of assessing the skin quality of a human subject, the method comprising: determining the presence or absence of polymorphisms in MMP1, SOD2, and GPX1 in a biological sample from the human subject to provide a genetic skin score; determining a predicted skin feature quality score corresponding to a skin feature selected from the group consisting of skin wrinkles, skin spots, decreased skin tension, decreased skin radiance, and skin texture roughness by applying a predictive equation corresponding to the skin feature to the genetic skin score, wherein the predictive equation corresponds to the skin feature and is determined by a regression analysis of data obtained from a control group comprising members whose ages span at least two decades, the data comprising: wherein the predicted skin feature quality score is representative of a risk of the human subject developing the skin feature; determining a current skin feature quality score of the human subject from image analysis of an image of a skin surface of the human subject, the current skin feature quality score corresponding to the skin feature; and determining a magnitude of a gap between the predicted skin feature quality score and the current skin feature quality score.