Ancient DNA Helps Solve Multiple Sclerosis Mystery in Europe
(MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) The secrets of our ancestors might hold the key to why multiple sclerosis (MS) is more common among white, northern Europeans than among Europe’s more southern populations. While scientists have found hundreds of genes to date that are associated with MS, up to a fifth of northern Europeans have a genetic variant, called HLA-DRB1*15:01, that conveys a threefold higher risk of developing the autoimmune disease. Where this variant came […]#hopeforms — Public Fediverse posts
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