A dermatitis that is an inflammatory skin condition resulting in flaky, white to yellowish scales on oily areas such as the scalp or inside the ear, which is caused due to a combination of an over production of skin oil and irritation from a yeast Malassezia furfur. The symptoms include itching, skin lesions and scales, redness, plaques and hair loss. (Human Disease Ontology, DOID_8741)
16 genes associated with the seborrheic dermatitis phenotype by mapping known disease genes to disease phenotypes from the HPO Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
