Patent ID: 9371565
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: A61K,A61P,C07K,C12Q,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method for diagnosing a human as having an increased risk for psoriasis and alleviating the increased risk, the method comprising: a) amplifying a fragment of nucleic acid from said human that includes polymorphism rs1422878 as represented by position 101 of SEQ ID NO:78 or its complement to thereby create an amplicon containing said polymorphism; b) testing for said polymorphism rs1422878 by contacting said amplicon with an oligonucleotide that selectively hybridizes to C at said position 101 of SEQ NO:78 or G at said complement; c) detecting the presence of said C or said G; d) diagnosing said human as having an increased risk for psoriasis; and e) administering an anti-IL-12p40 antibody to said human to thereby alleviate said increased risk for psoriasis.