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Genetic Factors Explain Variation in the Age at Onset of Psoriasis: A Population-based Twin Study.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jan 2016
Lønnberg Ann Sophie, Skov Lone, Duffy David Lorenzo, Skytthe Axel, Kyvik Kirsten Ohm, Pedersen Ole Birger, Thomsen Simon Francis
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The aim of this study was to determine the age at onset of psoriasis in a population-based twin sample. Questionnaire-data in 10,725 twin pairs, 20-71 years of age, from the Danish Twin Registry, was collected, and analysed using survival regression analysis. Median age at onset was 25 and 28 years among women and men, respectively. The correlation between the ages was 0.84 (bootstrap standard error?=?0.044) in...
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