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Role of genetic susceptibility variants in predicting clinical course in multiple sclerosis: a cohort study.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Nov 2016
Pan Gongbu, Simpson Steve, van der Mei Ingrid, Charlesworth Jac C, Lucas Robyn, Ponsonby Anne-Louise, Zhou Yuan, Wu Feitong, Taylor Bruce V
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BACKGROUND: The genetic drivers of multiple sclerosis (MS) clinical course are essentially unknown with limited data arising from severity and clinical phenotype analyses in genome-wide association studies. METHODS: Prospective cohort study of 127 first demyelinating events with genotype data, where 116 MS risk-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were assessed as predictors of conversion to MS,...
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