Genome-wide association studies: Will we ever predict susceptibility to multiple sclerosis through genetics?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-237

  Dobson, Ruth ^a   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a   Giovannoni, Gavin ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disease prediction; environmental risk; genetics; GWAS; multiple sclerosis; risk factor interaction

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; HLA SYSTEM; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84874598452     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.13.13     Document Type: Review

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