1. A role for the Epstein–Barr virus in multiple sclerosis aetiology?
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Hrastelj, J. and Robertson, N. P.
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MULTIPLE sclerosis ,EPSTEIN-Barr virus ,ETIOLOGY of diseases ,HIV seroconversion ,TRANSCRIPTION factors ,CELL adhesion molecules - Abstract
The final paper discussed this month reports that an EBV transcription factor occupies a large number of the MS genetic risk variants and this may at least partly explain how EBV infection and genetic risk intersect to cause MS. To assess whether a confounder could independently lead to EBV infection and MS, seropositivity to CMV was tested, because CMV infection displays very similar epidemiology to EBV infection. The association between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple sclerosis (MS) has been known for many years. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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