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No association between identified multiple sclerosis non-MHC risk loci and neuromyelitis optica.
Neuroscience bulletin - 1 Dec 2014
Liu Qi-Bing, Li Zhen-Xin, Zhao Gui-Xian, Yu Hai, Wu Zhi-Ying
Abstract excerpt
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and multiple sclerosis (MS) are both autoimmune inflammatory and demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system. Recently, more than 50 MS-susceptibility single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been detected outside the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the association of these identified non-MHC MS risk loci with Chinese...
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