Gene discovery offers hope for psoriasis

[Caroline]

I hope this leads to a blood test so a person can know if they're more likely to get PsA.  Then their treatments could be better.  Does it seem that some people have trouble getting PsA diagnosed because some doctors can't distinguish between this form of arthritis and others?

There are several researchers over here in the Netherlands, who are trying to get an early detection mechanism. In Amsterdam they are researching the early onset of inflammation of the tendons and possible very early medication and in Rotterdam they have the iProlepsis international project to detect the early arrival of arthritis by measuring the moving pattern of psoriasis patients.