Collaborative Association Study of Psoriasis

The goal of this collaborative study is to combine the resources and expertise of three groups with long-standing studies of psoriasis genetics in order to identify new genetic susceptibility factors for psoriasis, a common inflammatory skin disease that affects over 4 million Americans.

Consent groups and participant set

• General research use (GRU): 1677 (950 cases, 692 controls, 35 others)
• Autoimmune disease (AD): 1198 (449 cases, 734 controls, 15 others)

• Type: Case-Control
• Archiver: The database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP)