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A Gene, an Exposure, and an Intervention in MS Metabolism17, Oct 2026
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Multiple Sclerosis Genetics
Multiple sclerosis is one of the strongest themes on this site. This pillar gathers the genetics, immune biology, progression, and multi-omics posts into one crawlable hub.
Core Questions
Which inherited variants and immune pathways change MS susceptibility?
Which genetic signals help explain disability progression or CNS resilience?
How do proteomics, metabolomics, and Mendelian randomization connect risk to mechanisms?
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Genetics
A Gene, an Exposure, and an Intervention in MS Metabolism
17, Oct 2026This post sets four recent papers on MS metabolism against each other, one from each of three research lines plus a review. It covers the...
Genetics
What MS Genetics Finds When It Looks at Metabolism
16, Oct 2026This post sets three recent studies at the intersection of MS genetics and metabolism against each other. It covers the summary data-based...
Genetics
Where the Vitamin D Benefit Stops in MS Risk
15, Oct 2026This post covers Yu and colleagues' 2024 Nutrition Journal study, which stacked four layers of evidence on vitamin D and MS: a prospective cohort...
Genetics
The Receptor Is Up and Its Pathway Is Down in MS T Cells
14, Oct 2026This post reads Martin-Gutierrez and colleagues' 2024 Clinical and Experimental Immunology study through its LXR signalling paradox rather than...
Genetics
Which Metabolites Cause MS? The First Metabolome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study in MS
12, Oct 2026This post covers Ge and colleagues' 2023 metabolome-wide Mendelian randomization study in the Journal of Neuroimmunology, which tested 571...
Genetics
More Enzyme, Less Branching, and More MS Risk
11, Oct 2026This post covers Mkhikian and colleagues' 2011 Nature Communications study, which inverted the usual order of genetic work by screening...
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Multiancestry MS GWAS Meets Single-Cell and Spatial Data
11, Oct 2026This post covers Fujimoto and colleagues' 2026 Nature Genetics study, the first MS GWAS in an East Asian population and a four-population...
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An Energy Deficit in MS Lesions, and in Tissue Before It Demyelinates
10, Oct 2026This post reads Ladakis and colleagues' 2024 metabolomic study of MS brain lesions through its bioenergetic rather than its lipid findings. It...
Genetics
From an MS GWAS Locus to the Gene It Acts Through
08, Oct 2026This post covers the variant-to-gene half of Upcott and colleagues' 2026 medRxiv preprint, which paired the MS susceptibility GWAS with blood and...
Genetics
Single-Nucleus Profiles and Lesion Geography in the MS Cortex
08, Oct 2026This post covers Schirmer and colleagues' 2019 Nature study, which applied single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics to cortical...
Genetics
Metabolomics and Single-Nucleus Data From the Same MS Lesion
07, Oct 2026This post covers Ladakis and colleagues' 2024 study in Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, the first metabolomic profiling of MS brain...
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What This Year's Nobel Tool Has Done in MS So Far
06, Oct 2026This post covers Absinta and colleagues' 2021 Nature study, which used the paramagnetic rim MRI biomarker to direct single-nucleus RNA sequencing...