title: [Association of the HLA B A locus and psoriasis. Analysis of a sample from the Uruguayan population].
abstract: Psoriasis is a skin disease affecting up to a 3% of the world's population. New theories try to explain it as disease provoked by many agents and transmitted by an only gen, where the environmental factors are important. This should be confirmed with the association found with HLA and psoriasis. In this paper we study the HLA association with psoriasis as it has been described in populations of the northern hemisphere, 19 patients with vulgar psoriasis were tested by means of 9 HLA A and 15 HLA B antigens. Postulous, arthropatic and palmo-plantar psoriasis were excluded. We employed the NIH microlymphocytotoxicity test. An association with HLA B13 is shown in accordance to some other reports.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D014583:Uruguay
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens
vernacular_title: Asociación del locus HLA B A psoriasis. Análisis de una muestra de población uruguaya.