Autoimmune diseases are a range of diseases in which the immune response to self-
antigens results in damage or dysfunction of tissues. Autoimmune diseases can be systemic …

The Americas In 2007, Poser and Brinar 1 noted that published prevalence rates of multiple
sclerosis (MS) could be misleading with the reliance on clinical information and brain MRI …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is universally found to be more prevalent in women than men. This
has led to extensive studies of differences in the immune system or nervous system between …

The uneven distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) across populations can be attributed to
differences in genes and the environment and their interaction. Prevalence and incidence …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common, complex neurological disease. The precise aetiology of
MS is not yet known, although epidemiological data indicate that both genetic and …

Epigenetics, the transgenerational transfer of phenotypic characters without modification of
gene sequence, is a burgeoning area of study in many disciplines of biology. However, the …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common, complex neurological disease. Epidemiological data
implicate both genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of MS, with various factors …

Genomic imprinting results in preferential gene expression from paternally versus maternally
inherited chromosomes. We used a genome-wide approach to uncover sex-specific parent …

Data on familial recurrence rates of complex diseases such as multiple sclerosis give
important hints to aetiological factors such as the importance of genes and environment. By …

Epigenetics is rising to prominence in biology as a mechanism by which environmental
factors have intermediate-term effects on gene expression without changing the underlying …