1. Association to the Glypican-5 gene in multiple sclerosis
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Lorentzen, Åslaug R., Melum, Espen, Ellinghaus, Eva, Smestad, Cathrine, Mero, Inger-Lise, Aarseth, Jan H., Myhr, Kjell-Morten, Celius, Elisabeth G., Lie, Benedicte A., Karlsen, Tom H., Franke, Andre, and Harbo, Hanne F.
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MULTIPLE sclerosis , *GENETICS of disease susceptibility , *HLA histocompatibility antigens , *CHROMOSOMES , *HUMAN genetics , *PATIENTS - Abstract
Abstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating disease affecting the central nervous system. MS-associated variants have been reported at both HLA and non-HLA loci, the latter including chromosome 13q31–32 and the Glypican-5 and Glypican-6 genes. In order to further explore the 13q31–32 region in MS, we genotyped 33 SNPs in 1355 Norwegian MS patients and 1446 Norwegian controls. An intronic SNP in the Glypican-5 gene (rs9523787) showed association with MS (pcorr =0.006). Thus, this study supports that MS susceptibility at 13q31–32 may localize to the Glypican-5 gene, which should lead to further fine-mapping, replication and functional studies of this gene. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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