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The genetics of multiple sclerosis: SNPs to pathways to pathogenesis.

by: Jorge R. Oksenberg, Sergio E. Baranzini, Stephen Sawcer, Stephen L. Hauser
Nature reviews. Genetics, Vol. 9, No. 7. (10 July 2008), pp. 516-526, doi:10.1038/nrg2395  Key: citeulike:2908245

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease and a common cause of neurological disability in young adults. The modest heritability of MS reflects complex genetic effects and multifaceted gene-environment interactions. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region is the strongest susceptibility locus for MS, but a genome-wide association study recently identified new susceptibility genes. Progress in high-throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies and a better understanding of the structural organization of the human genome, together with powerful brain-imaging techniques that refine the phenotype, suggest that the tools could finally exist to identify the full set of genes influencing the pathogenesis of MS.


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