Search Results - "Sawcer, S"
-
1
Overexpression of the Cytokine BAFF and Autoimmunity Risk
Published in The New England journal of medicine (27-04-2017)“…Genetic analysis revealed a gene variant in the Sardinian population that was associated with autoimmune disease. In the variant gene, a deletion yielded a…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
PAW30 Impact of genome-wide association screening on the genetics of multiple sclerosis
Published in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry (01-11-2010)“…In 2007 the IMSGC completed a GWAS based on 931 trio families. This study identified two new multiple sclerosis susceptibility genes—IL7R and IL2R. As part of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (27-09-2019)“…We analyzed genetic data of 47,429 multiple sclerosis (MS) and 68,374 control subjects and established a reference map of the genetic architecture of MS that…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
4
Apolipoprotein E genotype as a risk factor for susceptibility to and dementia in Parkinson’s Disease
Published in Journal of neurology (01-03-2009)“…Further to the wellestablished association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) and Alzheimer’s disease, this gene has also been implicated in both susceptibility…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
HLA-DR 15 is associated with female sex and younger age at diagnosis in multiple sclerosis
Published in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry (01-02-2002)“…Background: The association between multiple sclerosis and class II alleles of the major histocompatibiliy complex, in particular the DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
Familial effects on the clinical course of multiple sclerosis
Published in Neurology (30-01-2007)“…Familial factors influence susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS) but it is unknown whether there are additional effects on the natural history of the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
7
Autoimmune disease in first-degree relatives of patients with multiple sclerosis. A UK survey
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-06-2000)“…Previous studies examining an association with other autoimmune diseases have suggested the existence of a generalized autoimmune diathesis in patients with…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
Genetic burden in multiple sclerosis families
Published in Genes and immunity (01-10-2013)“…A previous study using cumulative genetic risk estimations in multiple sclerosis (MS) successfully tracked the aggregation of susceptibility variants in…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
9
Exome sequencing in single cells from the cerebrospinal fluid in multiple sclerosis
Published in Multiple sclerosis (01-10-2014)“…Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 100 germline variants that influence susceptibility to multiple sclerosis, most of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
Multiple sclerosis severity score : Using disability and disease duration to rate disease severity
Published in Neurology (12-04-2005)“…There is no consensus method for determining progression of disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) when each patient has had only a single…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
Primary spinal cord neurodegeneration in leber hereditary optic neuropathy
Published in Neurology (10-07-2007)Get full text
Journal Article -
12
Prevalence of the LRRK2 G2019S mutation in a UK community based idiopathic Parkinson’s disease cohort
Published in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry (01-05-2006)“…The LRRK2 G2019S mutation is the commonest genetic cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD) identified to date, although estimates of its prevalence in idiopathic…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
The distribution of the endogenous retroviruses HERV-K113 and HERV-K115 in health and disease
Published in Genomics (San Diego, Calif.) (01-09-2005)“…The human endogenous retroviruses HERV-K113 and HERV-K115 are full-length proviruses but unusual in being found in only a proportion of the population. Here,…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
14
Exploring the CLEC16A gene reveals a MS-associated variant with correlation to the relative expression of CLEC16A isoforms in thymus
Published in Genes and immunity (01-04-2011)“…Genomewide association studies have implicated the CLEC16A gene in several autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes. However,…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
A genome screen in multiple sclerosis reveals susceptibility loci on chromosome 6p21 and 17q22
Published in Nature genetics (01-08-1996)“…The population prevalence of multiple sclerosis is 0.1%; however, the risk of the disease in the siblings of affected individuals is very much higher at 3-5%…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
APOE epsilon variation in multiple sclerosis susceptibility and disease severity: some answers
Published in Neurology (09-05-2006)“…Background: Previous studies have examined the role of APOE variation in multiple sclerosis (MS), but have lacked the statistical power to detect modest…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
HLA-DRB1 and multiple sclerosis in Malta
Published in Neurology (08-01-2008)“…By comparison with the neighboring island of Sicily, the frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Malta is remarkably low. To explore whether the relative…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
No Evidence for Association with Parkinson Disease for 13 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Identified by Whole-Genome Association Screening
Published in American journal of human genetics (01-06-2006)“…Fewer than half of the SNPs (46%) showed allele frequency differences between cases and controls in the same direction as that reported by Maraganore et al.1…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Investigation of TGFB2 as a candidate gene in multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease
Published in Journal of neurology (01-07-2007)“…Given the known roles of TGFbeta2 in both regulating the immune system and promoting the survival of dopaminergic neurons, it is feasible that genetic…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
A non-synonymous SNP within membrane metalloendopeptidase-like 1 (MMEL1) is associated with multiple sclerosis
Published in Genes and immunity (01-12-2010)“…Several single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been completed in multiple sclerosis (MS). Follow-up studies of the…”
Get full text
Journal Article