Genetic susceptibility to psoriasis : A Genome wide assocation study in Egyptian psoriatic patients /
الاستعداد الجينى لمرض الصدفية : دراسة جمعية للجينوم الشامل لمرضى الصدفية المصريين
Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelhady ; Supervised Mohammad Ali Eldarouti , Amany Zaki Elramly , Nesrin Samir Elkholy
- Cairo : Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelhady , 2013
- 126 P. : facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine- Department of Dermatology and Venerology
Genome wide assoiation studies have been performed in psoriasis in several ethnic groups but never in Egyptians. the objective of this study is to determine the genetic susceptibility in Egyptian psoriasis patients. Blood samples from 339 Egyptian patiients were withdrawn and more than 200,000 SNP's were scanned using microarray techniques. HLA Cw*06 and other novel susceptibility Loci were found to be positively associated with psoriasis