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Consanguinity and multiple sclerosis susceptibility: A case control study.
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders - 1 Nov 2016
Maghzi Helia, Shaygannejad Vahid, Minagar Alireza, Hassanzadeh Akbar, Maghzi Amir-Hadi
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BACKGROUND: Several lines of evidence point towards the importance of genetic risk factors in the susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS). We aimed to compare the rates of consanguineous marriages between first cousins among parents of MS patients and a healthy unrelated control group. METHOD: This study is a cross-sectional hospital registry based study, which was performed by analyzing the clinical records of...
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