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Role of HLA class II genes in susceptibility and resistance to multiple sclerosis: studies using HLA transgenic mice.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Sept 2011
Luckey David, Bastakoty Dikshya, Mangalam Ashutosh K
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory and demyelinating autoimmune disease of CNS has both, a genetic and an environmental predisposition. Among all the genetic factors associated with MS susceptibility, HLA class II haplotypes such as DR2/DQ6, DR3/DQ2, and DR4/DQ8 show the strongest association. Although a direct role of HLA-DR alleles in MS have been confirmed, it has been difficult to understand the...
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