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Potential drug targets for multiple sclerosis identified through Mendelian randomization analysis

Jianfeng Lin, Jiawei Zhou, Yan Xu

Brain · 2023

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Summary

Multiple sclerosis is a complex autoimmune disease, and several therapies for multiple sclerosis have been developed and widely used. However, existing medications for multiple sclerosis were far from satisfactory due to their failure to suppress relapses and alleviate disease progression. Novel drug targets for multiple sclerosis prevention are still needed. We performed Mendelian randomization to explore potential drug targets for multiple sclerosis using summary statistics from the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (nCase = 47 429, nControl = 68 374) and further replicated in UK Biobank (nCase = 1356, nControl = 395 209) and FinnGen cohorts (nCase = 1326, nControl = 359 815). Genetic instruments for 734 plasma and 154 CSF proteins were obtained from recently published

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1093/brain/awad070
Catalogue ID
SNmoj1yqfv-th61xo
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