Genetic and infectious profiles of Japanese multiple sclerosis patients.

BACKGROUND: Nationwide surveys conducted in Japan over the past thirty years have revealed a four-fold increase in the estimated number of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, a decrease in the age at onset, and successive increases in patients with conventional MS, which shows an involvement of multip...

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Main Authors: Satoshi Yoshimura, Noriko Isobe, Tomomi Yonekawa, Takuya Matsushita, Katsuhisa Masaki, Shinya Sato, Yuji Kawano, Ken Yamamoto, Jun-ichi Kira, South Japan Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3494689?pdf=render