This thesis aimed to establish how different HLA genotypes correlate to MS severity and disease progression and whether they could be used as additional disease biomarkers and to a large extent the work has succeeded in this task. Association of MS with the alleles HLA-DRB1*15 and HLA-DQB1*06 and haplotype DRB1*15-DQB1*06 was identified, and under representation of other alleles, such as the HLA-DRB1*07 and HLA-A*02 alleles, showed a potentially protective role against the disease. HLA-A*02 was shown to be a marker of a better prognosis and, in contrast, HLA-B*07, B*08 and B*44 seem to be associated to with a worse prognosis. / Doctorat en Sciences médicales (Médecine) / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/312863 |
| Date | 05 October 2020 |
| Creators | Lysandropoulos, Andreas |
| Contributors | Pandolfo, Massimo, Le Moine, Alain, Goldman, Serge, Abramowicz, Marc, Vermersch, Patrick, Van Pesch, Vincent, Louryan, Stéphane |
| Publisher | Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Médecine – Médecine, Bruxelles |
| Source Sets | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation |
| Format | 3 full-text file(s): application/pdf | application/pdf | application/pdf |
| Rights | 3 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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