Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Molecular models of multiple sclerosis severity identify heterogeneity of pathogenic mechanisms

  • Peter Kosa,
  • Christopher Barbour,
  • Mihael Varosanec,
  • Alison Wichman,
  • Mary Sandford,
  • Mark Greenwood,
  • Bibiana Bielekova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35357-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) changes the composition of the CSF. Here the authors use patient samples and aggregate CSF biomarkers into models that predict disability across all MS phenotypes, and identify potentially causal mechanisms and molecular disease heterogeneity.