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Corneodesmosin gene polymorphism demonstrates strong linkage disequilibrium with HLA and association with psoriasis vulgaris.
Tissue antigens - 1 Nov 1999
Jenisch S, Koch S, Henseler T, Nair R P, Elder J T, Watts C E, Westphal E, Voorhees J J, Christophers E, Krönke M
Abstract excerpt
Corneodesmosin (CD) is thought to play a key role in corneocyte cohesion, and its proteolysis appears to be a major event in the process of desquamation. Recently it was shown that CD is encoded by the S-gene, which is located approximately 160 kb telomeric of HLA-C. In the present study, the role of CD in the genetics of psoriasis vulgaris was studied in greater detail. The second exon of the CD gene was...
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