“…However, the study population was Indian, having a higher frequency of Dsg1 antibodies than European patients [13]. Other studies showed a correlation between Dsg ELISA findings and clinical status during follow-up [10,11,14,15], but still others did not find a correlation between Dsg1 ELISA results and cutaneous severity [16,17] or Dsg3 ELISA results and mucosal severity [18,19], including disease activity scoring with arbitrary and non-validated clinical activity scores [9,16,17]. In contrast, other studies did not find a correlation during follow-up [9,16,20].…”