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Epidemiology and the genetics of psoriasis.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Jun 1994
Elder J T, Nair R P, Voorhees J J
Abstract excerpt
Several lines of compelling epidemiologic evidence indicate that susceptibility to psorasis is inherited, albeit not in a simple monogenic fashion. Psoriasis is one of a number of diseases with a presumed autoimmune pathogenesis that display significant human leukocyte antigen (HLA) associations. However, only a small fraction of those who carry the implicated HLA susceptibility alleles develop disease. Taken...
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