Difference between revisions of "Narcolepsy"

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We are involved in a Genome-wide Association Study on narcolepsy conducted by Mehdi Tafti's Group at the University of Lausanne. In brief, we identified a haplotype in the HLA-region that is strongly protective against narcolepsy. More than 10% of HLA-positive controls carry this DRB1*1301-DQB1*0603 haplotype, which was found in virtually no narcoleptic cases. The research findings were published in Nature Genetics.

Karen Kapur, Toby Johnson, Noam D Beckmann, Joban Sehmi, Toshiko Tanaka, Zoltán Kutalik, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Weihua Zhang, Diana Marek, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Yuri Milaneschi, Hilma Holm, Angelo Diiorio, Dawn Waterworth, Yun Li, Andrew B Singleton, Unnur S Bjornsdottir, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Dena G Hernandez, Ranil Desilva, Paul Elliott, Gudmundur I Eyjolfsson, Jack M Guralnik, James Scott, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Stefania Bandinelli, John Chambers, Kari Stefansson, Gérard Waeber, Luigi Ferrucci, Jaspal S Kooner, Vincent Mooser, Peter Vollenweider, Jacques S Beckmann, Murielle Bochud, Sven Bergmann
Genome-wide meta-analysis for serum calcium identifies significantly associated SNPs near the calcium-sensing receptor (CASR) gene.
PLoS Genet.: 2010, 6(7);e1001035
[PubMed:20661308] [WorldCat.org] [DOI]