Inheritance of susceptibility to multiple sclerosis

✍ Scribed by Stephen Sawcer; Peter N Goodfellow

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 672 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-7915
• DOI: 10.1016/s0952-7915(98)80091-5

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, epidemiological evidence supporting the genetic basis of multiple sclerosis has been extended and whole-genome linkage screening has advanced the mapping of the involved genes. Understanding of the known HLA associations has also improved and many candidate genes have been studied.