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Increased Risk of Psoriasis due to combined effect of HLA-Cw6 and LCE3 risk alleles in Indian population.
Scientific reports - 6 Apr 2016
Chandra Aditi, Lahiri Anirudhya, Senapati Swapan, Basu Baidehi, Ghosh Saurabh, Mukhopadhyay Indranil, Behra Akhilesh, Sarkar Somenath, Chatterjee Gobinda, Chatterjee Raghunath
Abstract excerpt
HLA-Cw6 is one of the most associated alleles in psoriasis. Recently, Late Cornified Envelop 3 (LCE3) genes were identified as a susceptibility factor for psoriasis. Some population showed epistatic interaction of LCE3 risk variants with HLA-Cw6, while some population failed to show any association. We determined the associations of a 32.2 kb deletion comprising LCE3C-3B genes and three SNPs (rs1886734,...
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