Article
Multiple sclerosis susceptibility: population and twin study of polymorphisms in the T-cell receptor beta and gamma genes region. French Group on Multiple Sclerosis.
Autoimmunity - 1 Jan 1993
Briant L, Avoustin P, Clayton J, McDermott M, Clanet M, Cambon-Thomsen A
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating auto-immune disease of the central nervous system with a suspected genetic component. Previous publications have demonstrated that MS susceptibility is influenced by Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes and recent studies have focused on addition...
Topics
- Alleles
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Diseases in Twins
- Genes
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta
