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Shared genetic risk factors and causal association between psoriasis and coronary artery disease.
Nature communications - 2 Nov 2022
Patrick Matthew T, Li Qinmengge, Wasikowski Rachael, Mehta Nehal, Gudjonsson Johann E, Elder James T, Zhou Xiang, Tsoi Lam C
Abstract excerpt
Psoriasis and coronary artery disease (CAD) are related comorbidities that are well established, but whether a genetic basis underlies this is not well studied. We apply trans-disease meta-analysis to 11,024 psoriasis and 60,801 CAD cases, along with their associated controls, identifying one opposing and three shared genetic loci, which are confirmed through colocalization analysis. Combining results from...
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