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Article: Atopic Dermatitis, Psoriasis may have genetic link: Findings may help search for therapies. (Atopy of Secondary Importance?).(Brief Article)
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- Skin & Allergy News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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MUNICH -- New studies of the genetics of atopic dermatitis are yielding "quite profound" surprises, Dr. William O.C.M. Cookson said at the 10th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
He recently performed a genome-wide scan of 148 nuclear families which included 254 children with physician-diagnosed atopic dermatitis, 153 with asthma, and 139 with both. The genomic screen identified four chromosomal regions, or loci, containing genes strongly linked to atopic dermatitis.
The expectation was that these four atopic dermatitis loci would be the same as the chromosomal regions strongly linked to childhood asthma and other atopic ...