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Association between alcohol, smoking and HLA-DQA1*0201 genotype in psoriasis.
Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica - 1 Sept 2004
Zheng Guang-Yong, Wei Sheng-Cai, Shi Tie-Liu, Li Yi-Xue
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Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease triggered by genetic, environment or other risk factors such as infection, drugs, stress, moisture, alcohol, and smoking. A major psoriasis susceptibility locus at 6p21.3 has been identified. Further studies found that HLA-DQA1*0201 allele was associated with psoriasis. However, there were few data exploring an association between the environmental factors and susceptibility...
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