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Combination of Myelin Basic Protein Gene Polymorphisms with HLA-DRB1*1501 in Iranian Patients with Multiple Sclerosis.
Iranian journal of immunology : IJI - 1 Sept 2017
Nejati Parham, Attar Marzieh, Rahimian Maryam, Fathi Davood, Shahbazi Majid
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis (MS), as a multifactorial autoimmune disease with complex genetic basis, causes demyelination in the central nervous system via cytokine responses to myelin antigens. Myelin basic protein (MBP) is the main protein component of the myelin sheath. HLA-DRB (human leukocyte antigen-DR beta) alleles, particularly HLA-DRB1*1501, may be of significance in the pathogenesis of MS. OBJECTIVE:...
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