[Given the evidence for a role of EBV in the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS), HERV-K18 Env is a plausible candidate for association with MS.ObjectiveTo assess whether variation in HERV-K18 Env is a risk factor for MS.MethodsWe developed a single nucleotide polymorphism-based genotyping method to determine the distribution of the three alleles of HERV-K18 env.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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