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Unraveling the Influence of HHEX Risk Polymorphism rs7923837 on Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis.
International journal of molecular sciences - 19 Jul 2022
González-Jiménez Adela, López-Cotarelo Pilar, Agudo-Jiménez Teresa, Martínez-Ginés Marisa, García-Domínguez Jose Manuel, Urcelay Elena, Espino-Paisán Laura
Abstract excerpt
One of the multiple sclerosis (MS) risk polymorphisms, rs7923837, maps near the HHEX (hematopoietically-expressed homeobox) gene. This variant has also been associated with type 2 diabetes susceptibility and with triglyceride levels, suggesting its metabolic involvement. HHEX plays a relevant role as a negative regulator of inflammatory genes in microglia. A reciprocal repression was reported between HHEX and...
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