Objective
To identify genes with an importance for susceptibility, resistance and disease course in multiple sclerosis, thereby increasing the understanding of the underlying pathogenetic events.
The project consists of the following tasks:
The identification, collection and clinical and physical characterization of a clinical MS material gathered from an ethnically very homogenous background.
A genome-wide search of 390 polymorphic DNA markers spanning the entire genome in 100 affected sibling pairs. Confirmation of the importance of identified chromosomal segments will be sought in an additional 100 multicase families.
Selected candidate genes, based on presumed pathogenetic mechanisms, will be studied directly in the sib-pairs and confirmed in the multicase families.
Selected genes or chromosomal regions, previously implicated or identified within the project, will be investigated in a very large number (500-1000) of sporadic MS patients for the delineation of associated haplotypes.
Parallel and subsequent analysis of an ethnically more distant reference population.
This project offers a unique opportunity in this type of analysis due to the ethnic similarities between the Scandinavian populations rendering a, sufficiently large, homogeneous, study population, likely to yield a high power of resolution in the analysis of a polygenic disorder. At completion, the project is likely to have identified a number of genes or delineated chromosomal regions containing genes, with a role in pathogenetic mechanisms in MS.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics DNA
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology multiple sclerosis
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
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Coordinator
141 86 HUDDINGE
Sweden
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