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HLA antigens may influence the age of onset of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Mar 2003
Queiro Rubén, Torre Juan Carlos, González Segundo, López-Larrea Carlos, Tinturé Tomás, López-Lagunas Isaac
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether HLA antigens may influence the age of onset of both psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS: One hundred thirty-five patients with PsA (77 men, 58 women, mean age 47 +/- 12 yrs) were analyzed. All were studied with a standard protocol and consecutively recruited to evaluate the relative contribution of HLA-Cw and HLA-B27 alleles to PsA susceptibility. Fifty patients with...
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