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Genetics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: update and future direction.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jul 2008
Duffin Kristina Callis, Chandran Vinod, Gladman Dafna D, Krueger Gerald G, Elder James T, Rahman Proton
Abstract excerpt
Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) both have substantive genetic determinants. Numerous candidate regions and genes have now been replicated in disease susceptibility, and to a lesser extent in disease expression, in both disease entities. Intensive efforts are now under way or are being planned to perform genome-wide association scans (GWAS) in psoriasis and PsA. A major determinant of success for GWAS is...
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