Fine-Mapping the Genetic Association of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Multiple Sclerosis: HLA and Non-HLA Effects

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region is strongly associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility. HLA-DRB1*15:01 has the strongest effect, and several other alleles have been reported at different levels of validation. Using SNP data from genome-wide studies, we imputed and teste...

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Main Authors: Patsopoulos, Nikolaos A., Barcellos, Lisa F., Hintzen, Rogier Q., Schaefer, Catherine, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Noble, Janelle A., Raj, Towfique, Gourraud, Pierre-Antoine, Stranger, Barbara E., Oksenberg, Jorge, Olsson, Tomas, Taylor, Bruce V., Sawcer, Stephen, Hafler, David A., Carrington, Mary, De Jager, Philip L., de Bakker, Paul I. W.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836799/