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  Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease associated with joints and the place where tendons and ligaments are connected to bone and usually occurs in combination with a skin disorder called psoriasis. Enthesitis is one of the most common characteristic features. Other clinical features, including swelling joints, itchy-painful red patches, silvery while building up dead skin cells, and PsA also affect the sacroiliac joint of the pelvic and spine, causing stiffness in and around the neck and back. The exact cause of psoriatic arthritis is still unknown. It starts emerging in individuals aged 30 to 50 and can begin as early as childhood. Both genders are equally at the same risk level. The genetic epidemiology of PsA also supports its unique status. PsA has been associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class 1 alleles as opposed to the type 2 alleles associated with RA. Extra-articular manifestations of PsA are also different from those of RA. In ...