Identifying rare genetic variants conferring susceptibility to multiple sclerosis

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/605511

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Recently there has been success in identifying common genetic variants that confer susceptibility to multiple sclerosis. The variants that have been discovered so far have modest effects on risk of disease, and only explain a small proportion of familial aggregation of disease. In this study we aim to identify rarer genetic variants that have stronger effects on risk of disease, using new statistical methods and new methods to sequence very large amounts of DNA.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $293,898.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Neurogenetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

autoimmune disease | gene mapping | genetic linkage | genome-wide association studies | high throughput sequencing | multiple sclerosis | neurodegeneration

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