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Necrotizing meningoencephalitis of Pug dogs associates with dog leukocyte antigen class II and resembles acute variant forms of multiple sclerosis.
Tissue antigens - 1 Aug 2010
Greer K A, Wong A K, Liu H, Famula T R, Pedersen N C, Ruhe A, Wallace M, Neff M W
Abstract excerpt
Necrotizing meningoencephalitis (NME) is a disorder of Pug Dogs that appears to have an immune etiology and high heritability based on population studies. The present study was undertaken to identify a genetic basis for the disease. A genome-wide association scan with single tandem repeat (STR) m...
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