Genetic control of psoriasis is relatively distinct from that of metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease

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Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease, associated with significant comorbidity, for example, metabolic syndrome (MetS) and coronary heart disease (CHD). This association implies that the risk to develop these diseases is commonly controlled or that the presence of one disease favours manifestation of the other. Therefore, we assessed the catalogue of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to...

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