Psoriasis is quite heritable. It is associated with various loci throughout the genome. The type 6 susceptibility is associates with 19p13.
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Zenz R et al. (2005) Psoriasis-like skin disease and arthritis caused by inducible epidermal deletion of Jun proteins. |
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Lee YA et al. (2000) Genomewide scan in german families reveals evidence for a novel psoriasis-susceptibility locus on chromosome 19p13. |
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Hüffmeier U et al. (2009) Characterisation of psoriasis susceptibility locus 6 (PSORS6) in patients with early onset psoriasis and evidence for interaction with PSORS1. |
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Wu LS et al. (2011) A miRNA-492 binding-site polymorphism in BSG (basigin) confers risk to psoriasis in central south Chinese population. |