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Genetics of multiple sclerosis.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Mar 2000
Fukazawa T, Sasaki H, Kikuchi S, Hamada T, Tashiro K
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although environmental risk factors are clearly involved in MS, the importance of genetic factors has been strongly supported by the results of studies on multiplex families, though a weak association with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been the only genetic feature of MS consistently observed to...
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