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Genetic evidence for involvement of the IL23 pathway in Thai psoriatics.
Archives of dermatological research - 1 Mar 2010
Nair Rajan P, Stuart Philip E, Kullavanijaya Preya, Kullavanijaya Prisana, Tejasvi Trilokraj, Voorhees John J, Elder James T
Abstract excerpt
A recent genome-wide association analysis of psoriasis identified IL12B and IL23R as significantly associated with psoriasis. Here we report association test results of a Thai cohort consisting of 206 psoriasis cases and 114 controls. The IL23R SNPs rs7530511 and rs11209026, and IL12B SNPs rs3212227 and rs6887695 were genotyped using Taqman assays. Data were analyzed using a logistic regression model for linear...
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