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Stephen Sawcer

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Top papers

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1 Risk alleles for multiple sclerosis identified by a genomewide study. N Engl J Med 2007 17.06
2 Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. Nature 2011 13.23
3 Complete MHC haplotype sequencing for common disease gene mapping. Genome Res 2004 12.09
4 Variation analysis and gene annotation of eight MHC haplotypes: the MHC Haplotype Project. Immunogenetics 2008 4.25
5 Heterogeneity at the HLA-DRB1 locus and risk for multiple sclerosis. Hum Mol Genet 2006 3.13
6 The genetics of multiple sclerosis: SNPs to pathways to pathogenesis. Nat Rev Genet 2008 2.83
7 Genetic analysis of completely sequenced disease-associated MHC haplotypes identifies shuffling of segments in recent human history. PLoS Genet 2006 2.80
8 The role of the CD58 locus in multiple sclerosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 2.38
9 IL2RA genetic heterogeneity in multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes susceptibility and soluble interleukin-2 receptor production. PLoS Genet 2009 2.30
10 A second major histocompatibility complex susceptibility locus for multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol 2007 1.99
11 Replication analysis identifies TYK2 as a multiple sclerosis susceptibility factor. Eur J Hum Genet 2009 1.97
12 Confounding underlies the apparent month of birth effect in multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol 2013 1.62
13 Fine-mapping the genetic association of the major histocompatibility complex in multiple sclerosis: HLA and non-HLA effects. PLoS Genet 2013 1.55
14 A genome wide linkage disequilibrium screen in Parkinson's disease. J Neurol 2005 1.41
15 Rare and functional SIAE variants are not associated with autoimmune disease risk in up to 66,924 individuals of European ancestry. Nat Genet 2011 1.30
16 Lack of support for association between the KIF1B rs10492972[C] variant and multiple sclerosis. Nat Genet 2010 1.16
17 Confounding in association studies: month of birth and multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2014 1.03
18 Evaluating the role of the 620W allele of protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22 in Crohn's disease and multiple sclerosis. Eur J Hum Genet 2006 1.00
19 The distribution of the endogenous retroviruses HERV-K113 and HERV-K115 in health and disease. Genomics 2005 1.00
20 Concurrence of multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in patients with hexanucleotide repeat expansions of C9ORF72. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2012 0.95
21 MANBA, CXCR5, SOX8, RPS6KB1 and ZBTB46 are genetic risk loci for multiple sclerosis. Brain 2013 0.94
22 A genome-wide DNA microsatellite association screen to identify chromosomal regions harboring candidate genes in diabetic nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 2006 0.94
23 Evaluation of the established non-MHC multiple sclerosis loci in an Indian population. Mult Scler 2010 0.94
24 The problems and promises of research into human immunology and autoimmune disease. Nat Med 2012 0.94
25 Investigation of the role of mitochondrial DNA in multiple sclerosis susceptibility. PLoS One 2008 0.92
26 No evidence of association between mutant alleles of the CYP27B1 gene and multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol 2013 0.87
27 CD24 Ala/Val polymorphism and multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2006 0.87
28 New candidate loci for multiple sclerosis susceptibility revealed by a whole genome association screen in a Belgian population. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.86
29 A genome screen for linkage disequilibrium in HLA-DRB1*15-positive Germans with multiple sclerosis based on 4666 microsatellite markers. Hum Genet 2002 0.86
30 Multiple sclerosis: light at the end of the tunnel. Eur J Hum Genet 2006 0.85
31 Polymorphisms in the neuromyelitis optica auto-antigen AQP4 and susceptibility to multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2007 0.85
32 Linkage disequilibrium screening for multiple sclerosis implicates JAG1 and POU2AF1 as susceptibility genes in Europeans. J Neuroimmunol 2006 0.85
33 Genome-wide association studies in multiple sclerosis: lessons and future prospects. Brief Funct Genomics 2011 0.85
34 No evidence for association of a European-specific chromosome 17 inversion with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Hum Genet 2006 0.84
35 CADASIL with cord involvement associated with a novel and atypical NOTCH3 mutation. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011 0.84
36 Genetic analysis of multiple sclerosis. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2002 0.82
37 A whole genome association study in Icelandic multiple sclerosis patients with 4804 markers. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.82
38 A genome wide scan for association with multiple sclerosis in a N. Irish case control population. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.82
39 A genome-wide German screen for linkage disequilibrium in multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.81
40 No evidence of a significant role for CTLA-4 in multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2005 0.81
41 No evidence for association between an MAOA functional polymorphism and susceptibility to Parkinson's disease. J Neurol 2009 0.80
42 HERV-K113 is not associated with multiple sclerosis in a large family-based study. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2008 0.80
43 Four single nucleotide polymorphisms from the vitamin D receptor gene in UK multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2004 0.80
44 A genomic screen of Spanish multiple sclerosis patients reveals multiple loci associated with the disease. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.80
45 A whole genome association study in multiple sclerosis patients from north Portugal. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.79
46 A whole genome screen for linkage disequilibrium in multiple sclerosis performed in a continental Italian population. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.79
47 Genetic analysis of multiple sclerosis in Europeans: French data. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.79
48 Refining the analysis of a whole genome linkage disequilibrium association map: the United Kingdom results. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.78
49 SELPLG and SELP single-nucleotide polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis. Neurosci Lett 2005 0.78
50 A whole genome screen for association in Polish multiple sclerosis patients. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.77
51 Ultraconserved regions in multiple sclerosis. Eur J Hum Genet 2005 0.77
52 Detecting genes in complex disease: does phenotype accuracy limit the horizon? Trends Genet 2010 0.77
53 Two genome-wide linkage disequilibrium screens in Scandinavian multiple sclerosis patients. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.76
54 A genome-wide screen for linkage disequilibrium in Sardinian multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.76
55 A genome-wide screen for association in Hungarian multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.76
56 Refining the linkage analysis on chromosome 10 in 449 sib-pairs with multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2003 0.75
57 Cis acting expression loci in multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2005 0.75
58 Coding region polymorphisms in T cell signal transduction genes. Prevalence and association to development of multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2006 0.75
59 No evidence for association of the protein kinase C alpha gene with multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2005 0.75