title: Multiple sclerosis.
abstract: Multiple sclerosis is a complex genetic disease associated with inflammation in the CNS white matter thought to be mediated by autoreactive T cells. Clonal expansion of B cells, their antibody products, and T cells, hallmarks of inflammation in the CNS, are found in MS. This review discusses new methods to define the molecular pathology of human disease with high-throughput examination of germline DNA haplotypes, RNA expression, and protein structures that will allow the generation of a new series of hypotheses that can be tested to develop better understanding of and therapies for this disease.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. dhafler@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hafler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*