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Lack of support for association between the KIF1B rs10492972[C] variant and multiple sclerosis

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Figure 1: Odds ratio for the rs10492972[C] allele.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Sydney, Institute for Immunology and Allergy Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    David R Booth, Robert N Heard & Graeme J Stewart

  2. Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

    Mathew Cox, Rodney J Scott & Jeannette Lechner-Scott

  3. Section for Experimental Neurology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    An Goris, Rita Dobosi & Bénédicte Dubois

  4. Public Health Genomics Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

    Janna Saarela & Virpi Leppä

  5. Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Janna Saarela, Virpi Leppä & Leena Peltonen

  6. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

    Leena Peltonen

  7. Department of Neurology, Kuopio University Central Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

    Tuula Pirttila

  8. INSERM, UMR_S975, Centre de Recherche Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 06, Paris, France

    Isabelle Cournu-Rebeix & Bertrand Fontaine

  9. Fédération des maladies du système nerveux, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

    Isabelle Cournu-Rebeix & Bertrand Fontaine

  10. Department of Medical Sciences and Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy

    Laura Bergamaschi & Sandra D'Alfonso

  11. Clinica Neurologica, Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy

    Maurizio Leone

  12. Department of Neurology, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Åslaug R Lorentzen, Hanne F Harbo & Elisabeth G Celius

  13. Institute of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Åslaug R Lorentzen

  14. Institute of Basal Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Anne Spurkland

  15. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jenny Link, Ingrid Kockum, Tomas Olsson & Jan Hillert

  16. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK

    Maria Ban, Amie Baker, Anu Kemppinen, Stephen Sawcer & Alastair Compston

  17. Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK

    Neil P Robertson

  18. Department of Neurology, Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Philip L De Jager

  19. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Philip L De Jager

  20. Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Philip L De Jager & David A Hafler

  21. Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    David A Hafler

  22. Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

    Lisa F Barcellos

  23. Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Adrian J Ivinson

  24. John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Jacob L McCauley & Margaret A Pericak-Vance

  25. Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Jorge R Oksenberg & Stephen L Hauser

  26. Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    David Sexton & Jonathan Haines

Consortia

International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC)*

  • David R Booth
  • , Robert N Heard
  • , Graeme J Stewart
  • , Mathew Cox
  • , Rodney J Scott
  • , Jeannette Lechner-Scott
  • , An Goris
  • , Rita Dobosi
  • , Bénédicte Dubois
  • , Janna Saarela
  • , Virpi Leppä
  • , Leena Peltonen
  • , Tuula Pirttila
  • , Isabelle Cournu-Rebeix
  • , Bertrand Fontaine
  • , Laura Bergamaschi
  • , Sandra D'Alfonso
  • , Maurizio Leone
  • , Åslaug R Lorentzen
  • , Hanne F Harbo
  • , Elisabeth G Celius
  • , Anne Spurkland
  • , Jenny Link
  • , Ingrid Kockum
  • , Tomas Olsson
  • , Jan Hillert
  • , Maria Ban
  • , Amie Baker
  • , Anu Kemppinen
  • , Stephen Sawcer
  • , Alastair Compston
  • , Neil P Robertson
  • , Philip L De Jager
  • , David A Hafler
  • , Lisa F Barcellos
  • , Adrian J Ivinson
  • , Jacob L McCauley
  • , Margaret A Pericak-Vance
  • , Jorge R Oksenberg
  • , Stephen L Hauser
  • , David Sexton
  •  & Jonathan Haines

Contributions

D.R.B., R.N.H., G.J.S., M.C., R.J.S., J.L.-S., A.G., R.D., B.D., J.S., V.L., L.P., T.P., I.C.-R., B.F., L.B., S.D., M.L., A.R.L., E.G.C., H.F.H., A.S., J.L., I.K., T.O., J.H., M.B., A.B., A.K., S.S., A.C., N.P.R., P.L.D., D.A.H., L.F.B., A.J.I., J.L.M., M.A.P.-V., J.R.O., S.L.H., D.S. and J.H. designed the study, coordinated sample and data handling and contributed to the manuscript. M.C., A.G., R.D., V.L., I.C.-R., L.B., A.R.L., J.L. and A.B. performed the genotyping. M.B. and S.S. performed the statistical analysis.

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Correspondence to Maria Ban.

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International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC)*. Lack of support for association between the KIF1B rs10492972[C] variant and multiple sclerosis. Nat Genet 42, 469–470 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0610-469

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