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CD24 is a genetic modifier for risk and progression of multiple sclerosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Dec 2003
Zhou Qunmin, Rammohan Kottil, Lin Shili, Robinson Nikki, Li Ou, Liu Xingluo, Bai Xue-feng, Yin Lijie, Scarberry Bruce, Du Peishuang, You Ming, Guan Kunliang, Zheng Pan, Liu Yang
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease of unknown etiology, but a genetic basis for the disease is undisputed. We have reported that CD24 is required for the pathogenicity of autoreactive T cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the mouse model of MS. Here we inves...
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