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Materials and Methods: This study included 150 patients with clinically confirmed psoriasis, comprising 75 patients with overweight\/obesity and 75 non-overweight\/obese individuals frequency-matched by age and sex; because group sizes were fixed by design rather than sampled in proportion to prevalence, the reported odds ratios reflect within-sample associations rather than population-level risk estimates. Clinical, anthropometric, biochemical, inflammatory, and genetic data were collected using standardized protocols. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess clinical, metabolic, and inflammatory correlates of overweight\/obesity. Associations between three candidate polymorphisms, rs1558902 in FTO, rs696574 in CALCRL, and rs10968110 in ZTV, were evaluated. Results: In the multivariable model adjusted for age and sex, higher triglyceride levels (adjusted OR 4.73, 95% CI 1.36\u201318.57), higher HbA1c (adjusted OR 1.71, 95% CI 1.09\u20132.91), and lower HDL-C levels (adjusted OR 0.36, 95% CI 0.18\u20130.66) were independently associated with overweight\/obesity. In genetic analyses, rs10968110 in ZTV showed significant associations with overweight\/obesity in genotype, additive trend, allelic, and dominant models, while the recessive model was not significant. The FTO rs1558902 variant was also significantly associated with overweight\/obesity, with the strongest support observed under additive, allelic, and dominant assumptions. In contrast, rs696574 in CALCRL was not significantly associated with overweight\/obesity. Exploratory MDR analysis identified rs10968110 as the most stable single-locus model, whereas higher-order models showed only limited additional discriminatory value and lower cross-validation consistency. Conclusions: Among ethnic Kazakh patients with psoriasis, overweight\/obesity was associated with an adverse cardiometabolic profile characterized by elevated triglycerides, higher HbA1c, and reduced HDL-C. Candidate genetic findings suggest that ZTV rs10968110 and FTO rs1558902 may be associated with overweight\/obesity susceptibility, although these results should be considered exploratory pending validation in larger independent cohorts. 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