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A CD40 and an NCOA5 gene polymorphism confer susceptibility to psoriasis in a Southern European population: a case-control study.
Human immunology - 1 Sept 2011
Zervou Maria I, Goulielmos George N, Castro-Giner Francesc, Boumpas Dimitrios T, Tosca Androniki D, Krueger-Krasagakis Sabine
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome-wide association studies of many complex diseases have successfully identified novel susceptibility loci, with many of them shared by multiple disease-associated pathways. The genes CD40 and nuclear receptor coactivator 5 (NCOA5), located in a 400-kb region surrounding CD40, have been reported to be associated with increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. We...
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