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Allelic combinations of immune-response genes as possible composite markers of IFN-β efficacy in multiple sclerosis patients.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Nov 2012
Kulakova Olga G, Tsareva Ekaterina Yu, Boyko Alexey N, Shchur Sergey G, Gusev Evgeny I, Lvovs Dmitrijs, Favorov Alexander V, Vandenbroeck Koen, Favorova Olga O
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BACKGROUND: IFN-β is widely used as the first-line disease-modifying treatment for multiple sclerosis. However, 30-50% of multiple sclerosis patients do not respond to this therapy. Identification of genetic variants and their combinations that predict responsiveness to IFN-β could be useful for treatment prognosis. MATERIALS & METHODS: The combinations of alleles of nine polymorphic loci in immune-response genes...
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