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Spinal cord involvement in multiple sclerosis: a correlative MRI and high-resolution HLA-DRB1 genotyping study.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Jan 2011
Qiu Wei, Raven Sonja, James Ian, Luo Yuebei, Wu Jingshan, Castley Alison, Christiansen Frank T, Carroll William M, Mastaglia Frank L, Kermode Allan G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There have been few magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of the spinal cord in large multiple sclerosis (MS) patient cohorts and little is known about correlations between cord lesions and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the spectrum of MRI changes in the spinal cord in MS and associations with the HLA-DRB1 genotype. METHODS: Two hundred and fifty two consecutive...
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