Nat Rev Genet. 2008 Jul;9(7):516-26. Epub 2008 Jun 10.

The genetics of multiple sclerosis: SNPs to pathways to pathogenesis.

Oksenberg JR, Baranzini SE, Sawcer S, Hauser SL.

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Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-0435, USA. jorge.oksenberg@ucsf.edu

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease and a common cause of neurological disability in young adults. The modest heritability of MS reflects complex genetic effects and multifaceted gene-environment interactions. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region is the strongest susceptibility locus for MS, but a genome-wide association study recently identified new susceptibility genes. Progress in high-throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies and a better understanding of the structural organization of the human genome, together with powerful brain-imaging techniques that refine the phenotype, suggest that the tools could finally exist to identify the full set of genes influencing the pathogenesis of MS.

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