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[Genetic predisposition to multiple sclerosis as a polygenic autoimmune disease].
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova - 1 Jan 2009
Favorova O O, Favorov A V, Boĭko A N, Sudomoina M A, Andreevskiĭ T V, Alekseenkov A D, Kulakova O G, Gusev E I, Parmigiani G, Ochs M F
Abstract excerpt
Unrelated patients with definite multiple sclerosis (MS) and healthy controls of Russian descent were genotyped at 16 polymorphic loci of the DRB1, TNF, LTa, TGFb1, CCR5 and CTLA4 genes and TNFa and TNFb microsatellites. The association of allelic variants with MS (p<0,01) was studied using the case-control method with the PSampler algorithm recently developed by our group. The previously described DRB1*15(2)...
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