Epigenetics of Multiple Sclerosis: An Updated Review

NeuroMolecular Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 83-96

  Küçükali, Cem İsmail ^a   Kürtüncü, Murat ^b   Çoban, Arzu ^b   Çebi, Merve ^a   Tüzün, Erdem ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Epigenetics; Genetics; miRNA; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

FAT INTAKE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; MICRORNA;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMORBIDITY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOUSE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TWINS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DIETARY FATS; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84896407331     PISSN: 15351084     EISSN: 15591174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12017-014-8298-6     Document Type: Review

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