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Leprosy and the natural selection for psoriasis.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2012

Bassukas Ioannis D, Gaitanis Georgios, Hundeiker Max

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Psoriasis is a genetically determined, almost worldwide-distributed inflammatory skin disease with overall higher prevalence among people of northern European ancestry. Since enhanced innate immunity is an important feature of the pathophysiology of this disease, it has been proposed that differences in the prevalence of psoriasis in different populations mainly result from differences in natural selection for...

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PMID: 22079652
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.10.022

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