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Genetic burden in multiple sclerosis families.
Genes and immunity - 1 Oct 2013
Isobe N, Damotte V, Re V Lo, Ban M, Pappas D, Guillot-Noel L, Rebeix I, Compston A, Mack T, Cozen W, Fontaine B, Hauser S L, Oksenberg J R, Sawcer S, Gourraud P-A
Abstract excerpt
A previous study using cumulative genetic risk estimations in multiple sclerosis (MS) successfully tracked the aggregation of susceptibility variants in multi-case and single-case families. It used a limited description of susceptibility loci available at the time (17 loci). Even though the full roster of MS risk genes remains unavailable, we estimated the genetic burden in MS families and assess its disease...
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