Is Psoriasis Genetic?

Thanks for a most interesting question. This is a hot area for research both by dermatologists and geneticists. The latter find psoriasis genetic research fascinating. Patients with psoriasis often ask me whether they will have it their whole life. Will there be a cure for it? At the present time, I feel the only cure looming is in gene therapy. If you remember, the man who died during the first gene therapy treatment at the University of Pennsylvania. Well, the gene therapy was... more