Abstract

In a community survey of 953 adults we identified 40 who reported having had psoriasis. Eight of these cases were subsequently documented from physicians' records. alpha 1-Antitrypsin (alpha 1-AT) phenotyping identified 35 MZ individuals, 4 (11.4%) of whom reported psoriasis. Among the 918 non-MZ individuals 36 (3.9%) reported psoriasis, yielding a relative incidence of 3.2 (p less than 0.05). This is consistent with previous reports suggesting an association between moderate alpha 1-AT deficiency and psoriasis.

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