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SUBMITTER: Sawcer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2824946 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology 20091001 4
THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY INVESTIGATED AND TWO FEATURES HAVE CONSISTENTLY EMERGED: marked geographical variation in prevalence and substantial familial clustering. At first sight, geographic variation would seem to imply an environmental cause for the disease, while familial clustering would seem to suggest that genetic factors have the predominant etiological effect. However, given that geographic variation in prevalence could result from variation in the frequ ...[more]