Vitamin D-dependent rickets, HLA-DRB1, and the risk of multiple sclerosis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1034-1035

  Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b   Hanwell, Heather E C ^c   Giovannoni, Gavin ^b   Knappskog, Per Morten ^d,e   Nyland, Harald I ^d,e   Myhr, Kjell Morten ^d,e   Ebers, George C ^a   Torkildsen, Øivind ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFI D2 FORTE; CALCITRIOL; ERGOCALCIFEROL; HLA DR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D;

CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORWAY; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUTATION; RICKETS;

EID: 77955452132     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.182     Document Type: Letter

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