Correlating Multiple Sclerosis Risk SNPs with immune cell gene expression

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1032486

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

In Multiple Sclerosis (MS), the immune system repeatedly attacks the brain and spinal cord. In the last three years, rapid progress has been made in understanding genetic risk factors for MS, and more than 20 are known, but their function is not understood. The proposed study will recruit patients with MS and healthy controls to isolate five major immune cell types, and will assess how risk genes influence these cells. We hope to obtain a much better picture of how genetic risk factors for MS actually work.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $789,386.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cell biology | expression profiling | genetics | immune function | multiple sclerosis (MS)

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