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Strong associations of psoriasis with antigen processing LMP and transport genes TAP differ by gender and phenotype.
Genes and immunity - 1 Sept 2007
Krämer U, Illig T, Grune T, Krutmann J, Esser C
Abstract excerpt
Psoriasis, a skin disease with autoimmune features, can be triggered and exacerbated by genetic and environmental factors. Chemicals can break tolerance to self-antigens by interfering with antigen processing and presentation; therefore, proteins involved in antigen processing may affect susceptibility. We test here whether variants of immunoproteasome subunits LMP2 and LMP7, or antigen peptide transport proteins...
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