The availability of genetic determinants of multiple sclerosis that have emerged from recent genome-wide association studies creates opportunities to explain for the first time the biological factors ...

MS is a chronic disease that affects the central nervous system. When you have MS, your immune system attacks the protective sheath (myelin) that covers nerve fibers, and this can lead to ...

Protein function predictions are bioinformatic methods (i.e. involving computation using software) that aim to predict the function of a protein. Protein function analyses use protein sequences and ...

In people with multiple sclerosis (MS), nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord lose their protective sheath, damaging the transmission of nerve signals between the brain and the rest of the body.

Demyelination is damage to myelin, the fatty coating that protects nerves and speeds signals. When myelin breaks down, nerve messages slow and axons can deteriorate. Symptoms depend on where myelin is ...