Genetics of multiple sclerosis

DA Dyment, GC Ebers, AD Sadovnick - The Lancet Neurology, 2004 - thelancet.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is probably aetiologically heterogeneous. Systematic genetic
epidemiological and molecular genetic studies have provided important insights. Both genetic and …

Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis: a critical overview

AD Sadovnick, GC Ebers - Canadian Journal of Neurological …, 1993 - cambridge.org
AD Sadovnick and GC Ebers … Sweeney VP, Sadovnick AD, Brandejs V. Prevalence of
multiple sclerosis in … Sadovnick AD, Ebers GC. Age of onset in siblings concordant for multiple …

Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 1. Risk assessment and primary prevention of Alzheimer disease

…, A Garcia, GYR Hsiung, C MacKnight, AD Sadovnick - Cmaj, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
… Reduced incidence of AD with NSAID but not H 2 receptor antagonists. The Cache County
… Naproxen and celecoxib do not prevent AD in early results from a randomized controlled …

Mutations in progranulin cause tau-negative frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17

…, C Lindholm, J Snowden, J Adamson, AD Sadovnick… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common cause of dementia in people
under the age of 65 years 1 . A large proportion of FTD patients (35–50%) have a family history …

Sex ratio of multiple sclerosis in Canada: a longitudinal study

…, W Valdar, SV Ramagopalan, AD Sadovnick… - The Lancet …, 2006 - thelancet.com
Background Incidence of multiple sclerosis is thought to be increasing, but this notion has
been difficult to substantiate. In a longitudinal population-based dataset of patients with …

A genetic basis for familial aggregation in multiple sclerosis

GC Ebers, AD Sadovnick, NJ Risch - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
GENETIC-environmental interactions probably underlie spontaneous human autoimmune
disorders, a category of complex traits thought to include multiple sclerosis (MS) 1 . The …

Twin concordance and sibling recurrence rates in multiple sclerosis

…, DA Dyment, NJ Risch, AD Sadovnick… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Size and ascertainment constraints often limit twin studies to concordance comparisons between
identical and fraternal twins. Here we report the final results of a longitudinal, population…

Depression and multiple sclerosis

AD Sadovnick, RA Remick, J Allen, E Swartz, IML Yee… - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
Article abstract-The objectives of the present study were (1) to ascertain the lifetime risk of a
depression in n representative group of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients,(2) to assess the …

A population-based study of multiple sclerosis in twins

GC Ebers, DE Bulman, AD Sadovnick… - … England Journal of …, 1986 - Mass Medical Soc
Results from studies of twin concordance in multiple sclerosis have not conclusively differentiated
between environmental and genetic factors that determine susceptibility to the disease…

A population‐based study of multiple sclerosis in twins: update

AD Sadovnick, H Armstrong, GPA Rice… - Annals of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
This study is a 7.5 year follow‐up of a population‐based series of twins with multiple sclerosis
(MS) whose mean age now exceeds 50 years. The twin pairs were identified through the …