Twin concordance and sibling recurrence rates in multiple sclerosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 12877-12882

  Willer, C J ^a,e   Dyment, D A ^a   Risch, N J ^b   Sadovnick, A D ^c   Ebers, G C ^a,d   Paty, D W ^c   Hashimoto, S A ^c   Devonshire, V ^c   Hooge, J ^c   Oger, J ^c   Metz, L ^f   Warren, S ^g   Hader, W ^h   Nelson, R ⁱ   Freedman, M ⁱ   Brunet, D ^j   Paulseth, J ^k   Rice, G ^l   O'Connor, P ^m   Duquette, P ⁿ   Lapierre, Y ^o   Bouchard, J P ^p   Murray, T J ^q   Bhan, V ^q   Maxner, C ^q   Pryse Phillips, W ^r   Stefanelli, M ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h Saskatoon City Hospital   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^j KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^l LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^m ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁿ NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^o MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^p LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^q Halifax General Hospital   (Canada)

^r St John's Memorial Hospital   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWINS;

CANADA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; SIBLINGS; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0242268416     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1932604100     Document Type: Article

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