Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations

W Barrie, Y Yang, EK Irving-Pease, KE Attfield… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuro-inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that is most
prevalent in Northern Europe. Although it is known that inherited risk for MS is located within …

Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility

International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium*†… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and degenerative disease of the
central nervous system (CNS) that often presents in young adults. Over the past decade …

Twin study reveals non-heritable immune perturbations in multiple sclerosis

F Ingelfinger, LA Gerdes, V Kavaka, S Krishnarajah… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system
underpinned by partially understood genetic risk factors and environmental triggers and …

The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians

EK Irving-Pease, A Refoyo-Martínez, W Barrie… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Holocene (beginning around 12,000 years ago) encompassed some of the
most significant changes in human evolution, with far-reaching consequences for the …

Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system in which the interplay
between inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes typically results in intermittent …

Genome, epigenome and RNA sequences of monozygotic twins discordant for multiple sclerosis

SE Baranzini, J Mudge, JC Van Velkinburgh… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Monozygotic or 'identical'twins have been widely studied to dissect the relative contributions
of genetics and environment in human diseases. In multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune …

The Multiple Sclerosis Genomic Map: Role of peripheral immune cells and resident microglia in susceptibility

International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium… - BioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
We assembled and analyzed genetic data of 47,351 multiple sclerosis (MS) subjects and
68,284 control subjects and establish a reference map of the genetic architecture of MS that …

Interactions between genetic, lifestyle and environmental risk factors for multiple sclerosis

T Olsson, LF Barcellos, L Alfredsson - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2017 - nature.com
Genetic predisposition to multiple sclerosis (MS) only explains a fraction of the disease risk;
lifestyle and environmental factors are key contributors to the risk of MS. Importantly, these …

Neuronal vulnerability and multilineage diversity in multiple sclerosis

L Schirmer, D Velmeshev, S Holmqvist, M Kaufmann… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disease with a relapsing–remitting disease
course at early stages, distinct lesion characteristics in cortical grey versus subcortical white …

A putative vulnerability locus to multiple sclerosis maps to 5p14–p12 in a region syntenic to the murine locus Eae2

S Kuokkanen, M Sundvall, JD Terwilliger, PJ Tienari… - Nature …, 1996 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by multifocal
damage of myelin in the central neryous system (CMS). The prevalence of this putative …