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Enrichment for Northern European-derived multiple sclerosis risk alleles in Sardinia.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) - 1 Oct 2015
Hadjixenofontos A, Gourraud P A, Bakthavachalam V, Foco L, Ticca A, Bitti P, Pastorino R, Bernardinelli L, McCauley J L
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BACKGROUND: The list of genomic loci associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility outside the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in patients of Northern European (NE) ancestry has increased to 103. Despite the extraordinarily high MS prevalence in the isolated Sardinian population, the contribution of genetic risk factors to MS in Sardinia is largely not understood. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this...
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