. . . . . . . . . . . . "[The purpose of this study was to clarify the association of HLA-DRB1 and -DPB1 alleles with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Japanese, to determine whether optico-spinal MS (OS-MS) and conventional MS are immunogenetically distinct, and to verify the role of gender difference in HLA associations of MS. We studied HLA-DRB1 and -DPB1 polymorphisms in 166 Japanese patients with MS. Forty-seven patients were classified as having the optico-spinal MS (OS-MS) and 119 as having conventional MS. A lack of DPB1*0301 and a higher frequency of DPB1*0501 compared with controls (corrected P<0.0074; odds ratio=9.48) were found in OS-MS. By contrast, we found for the first time an association of DPB1*0301 with conventional MS in Japanese (corrected P=0.0444; odds ratio=3.28).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2015-02-27"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2015-08-25T14:42:05+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v3.0.0.0" . "v3.0.0" .