Multiple sclerosis: A polygenic disease involving epistatic interactions, germline rearrangements and environmental effects

Neurogenetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-28

  Karpuj, Marcela V ^a   Steinman, Lawrence ^a,b   Oksenberg, Jorge R ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Epistasis; Genetic rearrangement; Linkage; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REVIEW;

AUTOIMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031128770     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100480050003     Document Type: Review

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