| Literature DB >> 20453840 |
Serena Sanna1, Maristella Pitzalis, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Ilenia Zara, Carlo Sidore, Raffaele Murru, Michael B Whalen, Fabio Busonero, Andrea Maschio, Gianna Costa, Maria Cristina Melis, Francesca Deidda, Fausto Poddie, Laura Morelli, Gabriele Farina, Yun Li, Mariano Dei, Sandra Lai, Antonella Mulas, Gianmauro Cuccuru, Eleonora Porcu, Liming Liang, Patrizia Zavattari, Loredana Moi, Elisa Deriu, M Francesca Urru, Michele Bajorek, Maria Anna Satta, Eleonora Cocco, Paola Ferrigno, Stefano Sotgiu, Maura Pugliatti, Sebastiano Traccis, Andrea Angius, Maurizio Melis, Giulio Rosati, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Manuela Uda, Maria Giovanna Marrosu, David Schlessinger, Francesco Cucca.
Abstract
A genome-wide association scan of approximately 6.6 million genotyped or imputed variants in 882 Sardinian individuals with multiple sclerosis (cases) and 872 controls suggested association of CBLB gene variants with disease, which was confirmed in 1,775 cases and 2,005 controls (rs9657904, overall P = 1.60 x 10(-10), OR = 1.40). CBLB encodes a negative regulator of adaptive immune responses, and mice lacking the ortholog are prone to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the animal model of multiple sclerosis.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20453840 PMCID: PMC3786343 DOI: 10.1038/ng.584
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330