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Contribution of germline and somatic mutations to risk of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
21 Feb 2025
Abstract excerpt
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by optic neuritis and transverse myelitis, with an unclear genetic background. A genome-wide meta-analysis of NMOSD in Japanese individuals (240 patients and 50,578 controls) identified significant associations with the major histocompatibility complex region and a common variant close to CCR6 (rs12193698; p = 1.8 × 10 −8 ,...
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