summary: For people with relapsing-remitting MS and for clinicians, one of the main problems is that the relapses are unpredictable. An ability to predict relapses might help to reduce anxiety and to plan specific therapeutic interventions in people with MS. As MS is a disease of autoimmune origin, a number of genes that codify proteins involved in different steps of the immune response are active during the disease. The authors of this study found that an increase in the activity of certain genes related to the immune response may predict forthcoming relapses. The results of this study may have important implications.

authors: Gurevich M, Tuller T, Rubinstein U, Or-Bach R, Achiron A

source: BMC Med Genomics. 2009 Jul 22;2(1):46

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