| Literature DB >> 15007140 |
O H Kantarci1, D D Hebrink, S J Achenbach, S J Pittock, A Altintas, J L Schaefer-Klein, E J Atkinson, M De Andrade, C T McMurray, M Rodriguez, B G Weinshenker.
Abstract
The authors studied the association of an exon 4 (E4*epsilon2/3/4) and three promoter polymorphisms of APOE with disease course and severity stratified by gender in 221 patients with multiple sclerosis from two overlapping population-based prevalence cohorts. Women carriers of the E4*epsilon2 allele took longer to attain an Expanded Disability Status Scale score of 6 (p = 0.015) and had more favorable ranked severity scores than noncarriers (p = 0.009). There was no association in men. Alleles epsilon3 or epsilon4 and promoter polymorphisms were not associated with disease course or severity.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15007140 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000113721.83287.83
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910