An extension to a statistical approach for family based association studies provides insights into genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis in the HLA-DRB1 gene

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b   McMahon, Roisin ^b   Dyment, David A ^a,b   Dessa, A Dessa ^c   Ebers, George C ^a,b   Wittkowski, Knut M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA-DRB1 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; ALLELE; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALLELES; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 64549161896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-10-10     Document Type: Article

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