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William M. Carroll

Researcher at University of Western Australia

Publications -  137
Citations -  12762

William M. Carroll is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Multiple sclerosis & Optic nerve. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 131 publications receiving 9566 citations. Previous affiliations of William M. Carroll include Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

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Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria

TL;DR: The 2017 McDonald criteria continue to apply primarily to patients experiencing a typical clinically isolated syndrome, define what is needed to fulfil dissemination in time and space of lesions in the CNS, and stress the need for no better explanation for the presentation.
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Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

Stephen Sawcer, +265 more
- 10 Aug 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a collaborative GWAS involving 9,772 cases of European descent collected by 23 research groups working in 15 different countries, they have replicated almost all of the previously suggested associations and identified at least a further 29 novel susceptibility loci.
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Genome-wide association study identifies new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci on chromosomes 12 and 20

TL;DR: To identify multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility loci, a genome-wide association study in 1,618 cases and used shared data for 3,413 controls and observed a statistical interaction between SNPs in EVI5-RPL5 and HLA-DR15.
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The global burden of neurological disorders: translating evidence into policy.

TL;DR: In the past 30 years, the absolute numbers of deaths and people with disabilities owing to neurological diseases have risen substantially, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries, and further increases are expected globally as a result of population growth and ageing.