A Compston

TL;DR: This study has demonstrated that careful use of a shared control group represents a safe and effective approach to GWA analyses of multiple disease phenotypes; generated a genome-wide genotype database for future studies of common diseases in the British population; and shown that, provided individuals with non-European ancestry are excluded, the extent of population stratification in theBritish population is generally modest.

TL;DR: The revised criteria facilitate the diagnosis of MS in patients with a variety of presentations, including “monosymptomatic” disease suggestive of MS, disease with a typical relapsing‐remitting course, and disease with insidious progression, without clear attacks and remissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 is associated with susceptibility to more common diseases than any other region of the human genome, including almost all disorders classified as autoimmune.

TL;DR: A high-resolution map of HLA genetic risk is built and evidence for interactions involving classical HLA alleles and non-HLA risk-associated variants is found, estimating a minimal effect of polygenic epistasis in modulating major risk alleles.

TL;DR: In this article, a genetic association study of three IL2RA variants in a DNA collection of up to 9,407 healthy controls, 2,420 MS, and 6,425 Type 1 diabetes (T1D) subjects as well as 1,303 MS parent/child trios was performed.