Method and system for skin care consultation
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsKukizo MIYAMOTO, Iri Sato BARAN
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Abstract
Described herein are materials and methods for evaluating skin quality and providing customized, concierge skin consultation to consumers. In various aspects, the disclosure includes a method comprising detecting polymorphisms in MMP1, SOD2, and GPX1 from a biological sample, calculating a genetic skin score, comparing the genetic skin score to current skin features, and optionally counseling a consumer regarding a skin care regimen customized to enhance immediate skin quality and/or future skin quality.
Claims15
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;
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- 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:
- (i) a genetic skin score of each member of the control group, and
- (ii) a plurality of measurements corresponding to each member of the control group, wherein the plurality of measurements are associated with the skin feature and calculated from an image analysis of a skin surface of each member of the control group, and
- wherein the predicted skin feature quality score is representative of a risk of the human subject developing the skin feature.
A system for determining a gap between a predicted skin quality and a current skin quality of a human subject, the system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one communications interface;
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- at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a skin quality gap evaluator, the skin quality gap evaluator including computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
- receive, via the at least one communications interface, first data including at least one indication of the presence or absence, in a biological sample from the human subject, of at least one polymorphism in a set of human genes;
- determine a value indicative of the predicted skin quality of the human subject, the predicted skin quality value of the human subject determined based on the first data and on a correlation of the presence or absence of the at least one polymorphism to a set of skin features indicative of skin quality;
- receive, via the at least one communications interface, second data including a value indicative of the current skin quality of the human subject, the current skin quality value determined based on an automatic image-analysis of an image of a portion of the skin surface of the human subject, wherein the automatic image-analysis is configured to determine a measurement corresponding to the set of skin features of the portion of the skin surface;
- determine, based on the predicted skin quality value and the current skin quality value, a magnitude of a gap between the predicted skin quality and the current skin quality of the human subject;
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- cause an indication of the gap magnitude to be presented at a user interface.
A method of determining, based on a set of skin features corresponding to skin quality of humans, a gap between a predicted skin quality and a current skin quality of a human subject, the method comprising:
- (a) analyzing at least one skin surface of the human subject to determine at least one measurement indicative of the current skin quality of the human subject, wherein the at least one measurement corresponds to at least one skin feature of the set of skin features;
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- (b) determining, by a computing device and based on the at least one measurement, a magnitude of a gap between the current skin quality of the human subject and the predicted skin quality of the human subject, the predicted skin quality of the human subject determined based on a presence or absence of at least one polymorphism identified in nucleic acid from a biological sample from the human subject,
- wherein:
- each polymorphism of the at least one polymorphism is correlated with affecting one or more skin features of the set of skin features corresponding to skin quality, and
- the set of skin features corresponding to skin quality includes at least one of skin wrinkles, skin texture roughness, skin spots, decreased skin radiance, or decreased skin tension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.