Psoriasis is quite heritable. It is associated with various loci throughout the genome. The type 8 susceptibility is associates with 16q.
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Nair RP et al. (1997) Evidence for two psoriasis susceptibility loci (HLA and 17q) and two novel candidate regions (16q and 20p) by genome-wide scan. |
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Nair RP et al. (2001) Lack of association between NOD2 3020InsC frameshift mutation and psoriasis. |
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Borgiani P et al. () Exclusion of CARD15/NOD2 as a candidate susceptibility gene to psoriasis in the Italian population. |
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None (2003) The International Psoriasis Genetics Study: assessing linkage to 14 candidate susceptibility loci in a cohort of 942 affected sib pairs. |