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The role of hereditary spastic paraplegia related genes in multiple sclerosis. A study of disease susceptibility and clinical outcome.
Journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2007
DeLuca G C, Ramagopalan S V, Cader M Z, Dyment D A, Herrera B M, Orton S, Degenhardt A, Pugliatti M, Sadovnick A D, Sotgiu S, Ebers G C
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common inflammatory disease of the central nervous system unsurpassed for its variability in disease outcome. It has been observed that axonal loss in MS is significant and that irreversible clinical disability relates to such axonal loss. The clinical similarities between Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) and progressive MS, along with their analogous profiles of axonal loss in the...
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