TY - JOUR
T1 - Refining the linkage analysis on chromosome 10 in 449 sib-pairs with multiple sclerosis
AU - Åkesson, Eva
AU - Coraddu, Francesca
AU - Marrosu, Maria Giovanna
AU - Massacesi, Luca
AU - Hensiek, Anke
AU - Harbo, Hanne Flinstad
AU - Oturai, Annette
AU - Trojano, Maria
AU - Momigliano-Richiardi, Patricia
AU - Cocco, Eleonora
AU - Murru, Raffaele
AU - Hillert, Jan
AU - Compston, Alastair
AU - Sawcer, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to neurologists from the contributing countries who identified the families involved in this study. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant 057097), the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (grant 591/00), the European Commission (project number CT97-2422), the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Italian Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis (FISM), the Swedish Medical Research Council (project number: 11220), the Swedish Association of Neurologically Disabled and Karolinska Institute. We thank J. Gray, B. Smillie and M. Maranian for the expert technical assistance.
PY - 2003/10
Y1 - 2003/10
N2 - Genome-wide screens for linkage in multiplex families with multiple sclerosis (MS) from United Kingdom, Sardinia, Italy and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) have each shown suggestive or potential linkage on chromosome 10. The partially overlapping regions identified by these studies encompass around 60 cM of the chromosome. In order to explore this region further, we typed 13 microsatellite markers in the same 449 families originally studied in the individual screens. This additional genotyping increased the information extraction in the region from 52% to 79% and revealed increased support for linkage (MLS 2.5) peaking at 10p15.
AB - Genome-wide screens for linkage in multiplex families with multiple sclerosis (MS) from United Kingdom, Sardinia, Italy and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) have each shown suggestive or potential linkage on chromosome 10. The partially overlapping regions identified by these studies encompass around 60 cM of the chromosome. In order to explore this region further, we typed 13 microsatellite markers in the same 449 families originally studied in the individual screens. This additional genotyping increased the information extraction in the region from 52% to 79% and revealed increased support for linkage (MLS 2.5) peaking at 10p15.
KW - Linkage
KW - Map density
KW - Multiple sclerosis
KW - Susceptibility gene
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2003.08.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2003.08.008
M3 - Article
SN - 0165-5728
VL - 143
SP - 31
EP - 38
JO - Journal of Neuroimmunology
JF - Journal of Neuroimmunology
IS - 1-2
ER -