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Title
Modification of Multiple Sclerosis Phenotypes by African Ancestry at HLA.
Authors
Cree, Bruce A C; Reich, David E; Khan, Omar; De Jager, Philip L; Nakashima, Ichiro; Takahashi, Toshiyuki; Bar-Or, Amit; Tong, Christine; Hauser, Stephen L; Oksenberg, Jorge R
Abstract
In those with multiple sclerosis (MS), African American individuals have a more severe disease course, an older age at onset, and more often have clinical manifestations restricted to the optic nerves and spinal cord (opticospinal MS) than white persons.
Publication
Archives of neurology, 2009, Vol 66, Issue 2, p226