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  • Title: Clinical associations of the risk alleles of HLA-Cw6 and CCHCR1*WWCC in psoriasis.
    Author: Suomela S, Kainu K, Onkamo P, Tiala I, Himberg J, Koskinen L, Snellman E, Karvonen SL, Karvonen J, Uurasmaa T, Reunala T, Kivikäs K, Jansén CT, Holopainen P, Elomaa O, Kere J, Saarialho-Kere U.
    Journal: Acta Derm Venereol; 2007; 87(2):127-34. PubMed ID: 17340018.
    Abstract:
    The PSORS1 locus is the consistently replicated genetic risk factor for psoriasis. Clinical associations with the main marker allele of PSORS1, HLA-Cw6, have been addressed in a number of studies, but clinical associations have not been used as a way to distinguish the effects of the neighbouring candidate genes in PSORS1. Our results show that HLA-Cw6 and CCHCR1 risk allele associations with clinical features of psoriasis are predictably highly similar in a Finnish nationwide cohort of 379 psoriasis patients. The clinical profiling of a small group of patients (n=34) who were HLA-Cw6- but CCHCR1*WWCC positive suggested that no great differences existed between them and HCR-Cw6- patients. HCR+ genotype (as well as Cw6+ genotype) correlated for the first time positively with female sex and, in contrast with previous studies, negatively with disease severity. Presence of psoriatic arthritis was more pronounced in HCR- psoriasis (as well as in Cw6- psoriasis). Clinical profiling may be a useful approach to distinguishing genetic effects of candidate genes even within a locus in sufficiently large cohorts.
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