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This project investigates the role of specific genetic factors in multiple sclerosis, focusing on how certain genes influence the disease's development. It employs advanced methodologies to explore the relationship between genetic and environmental triggers in this autoimmune condition.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a prototypic CD4+ T cell-mediated autoimmune disease that damages the central nervous system. MS affects young adults and women twice as often as men.
Neurological deficits cause substantial disability at an early age with high socioeconomic impact.Both a complex genetic trait and environmental factors are involved in MS etiology.
Similar to other autoimmune diseases it has been known for almost 40 years that certain HLA-class II genes, in MS the two DR15 alleles DRB1*…
University of Zurich
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Switzerland, Zuerich
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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