The SARS-CoV-2 as an instrumental trigger of autoimmunity

A Dotan, S Muller, D Kanduc, P David, G Halpert… - Autoimmunity …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autoimmunity may be generated by a variety of factors by creating a hyper-stimulated state
of the immune system. It had been established long ago that viruses are a substantial …

Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and axonal dysfunction in multiple sclerosis

MA Friese, B Schattling, L Fugger - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2014 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most frequent chronic inflammatory disease of the CNS, and
imposes major burdens on young lives. Great progress has been made in understanding …

Serum neurofilament light: a biomarker of neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis

G Disanto, C Barro, P Benkert, Y Naegelin… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Neurofilament light chains (NfL) are unique to neuronal cells, are shed to the
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and are detectable at low concentrations in peripheral blood …

Serum neurofilament as a predictor of disease worsening and brain and spinal cord atrophy in multiple sclerosis

C Barro, P Benkert, G Disanto, C Tsagkas, M Amann… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Neuro-axonal injury is a key factor in the development of permanent disability in multiple
sclerosis. Neurofilament light chain in peripheral blood has recently emerged as a biofluid …

Association between telomere length and risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

PC Haycock, S Burgess, A Nounu, J Zheng… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length
and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility …

Genome-wide association analysis of 19,629 individuals identifies variants influencing regional brain volumes and refines their genetic co-architecture with cognitive …

B Zhao, T Luo, T Li, Y Li, J Zhang, Y Shan, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Volumetric variations of the human brain are heritable and are associated with many brain-
related complex traits. Here we performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 101 …

Long‐term evolution of multiple sclerosis disability in the treatment era

University of California, San Francisco MS … - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To characterize the accrual of long‐term disability in a cohort of actively treated
multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and to assess whether clinical and magnetic resonance …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-type specialization is encoded by specific chromatin topologies

W Winick-Ng, A Kukalev, I Harabula, L Zea-Redondo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) structure of chromatin is intrinsically associated with
gene regulation and cell function,–. Methods based on chromatin conformation capture have …

Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system in which the interplay
between inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes typically results in intermittent …

The genetics of multiple sclerosis: from 0 to 200 in 50 years

SE Baranzini, JR Oksenberg - Trends in genetics, 2017 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common autoimmune disease that targets myelin in the central
nervous system (CNS). Multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) over the past 10 …