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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bowes J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4327416 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150205
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis associated with psoriasis and, despite the larger estimated heritability for PsA, the majority of genetic susceptibility loci identified to date are shared with psoriasis. Here, we present results from a case-control association study on 1,962 PsA patients and 8,923 controls using the Immunochip genotyping array. We identify eight loci passing genome-wide significance, secondary independent effects at three loci and a distinct PsA-spe ...[more]