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The HLA-C*06 allele as a possible genetic predisposing factor to psoriasis in South Indian Tamils.
Archives of dermatological research - 1 Apr 2016
Indhumathi S, Rajappa Medha, Chandrashekar Laxmisha, Ananthanarayanan P H, Thappa D M, Negi V S
Abstract excerpt
Psoriasis is a multi-factorial heritable prototypical immune-mediated inflammatory disease, characterized by hyperproliferation of keratinocytes in the affected skin. There are no studies till date, to the best of our knowledge, about the association of HLA-C*06, the risk variant in the PSORS 1 susceptibility locus that confers the greatest risk for early onset of psoriasis, with the disease in South Indian Tamil...
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