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ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2017

Multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a human leukocyte antigen challenge.

Vincenzo Dattola, Fausto Famà, Margherita Russo, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò, Anna Lisa Logiudice, Maria Grazia Grasso, Francesco Patti, Maria Buccafusca

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Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Vincenzo DattolaIRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo", Contrada Casazza, SS113, 98124, Messina, Italy. vincenzo.dattola@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1457-1029
Fausto FamàDepartment of Human Pathology, University Hospital of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Margherita RussoIRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo", Contrada Casazza, SS113, 98124, Messina, Italy.
Rocco Salvatore CalabròIRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo", Contrada Casazza, SS113, 98124, Messina, Italy.
Anna Lisa LogiudiceIRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo", Contrada Casazza, SS113, 98124, Messina, Italy.
Maria Grazia GrassoMultiple Sclerosis Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Francesco PattiDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Maria BuccafuscaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Messina, Messina, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are two different central nervous system pathology that, according to the most accredited hypotheses, recognize a different etiopathogenesis. The simultaneous occurrence of MS and ALS is quite unusual. To our knowledge, only three cases have been so far described by clinical, laboratory, and post-mortem studies. We report four new cases of this peculiar combination that have been observed and are herein described, included their human leukocyte antigen (HLA) profile studies. On the basis that three out of four patients in our case series presented HLA-B*18:01A, we may hypothesize that this antigen could play a role in developing both diseases.

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AdultAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisFemaleHLA AntigensHumansMaleMiddle AgedMultiple SclerosisHLA AntigensAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisHistocompatibility antigensHuman leukocyte antigenMultiple sclerosis

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