A new study published in Neurology and led by Queen Mary University of London has revealed that people of South Asian, African , and European ancestry share many of the same genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS).
This new study is one of the most ancestrally diverse genetic analyses of MS conducted in the UK. MS affects around 150,000 people in the UK and more than two million people worldwide, yet most genetic research to date has focused on people of White European ancestry.
The research team analysed genetic data from more than 3,000 people with MS and over 27,000 without MS (called controls). They looked at participantsfrom the ADAMS Project, which specifically recruits people with MS from diverse backgrounds, and cases and controls from the UK Biobank. The…