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Record W1797244779 · doi:10.21083/surg.v7i2.2935

Epigenetics of multiple sclerosis

2014· article· en· W1797244779 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueSURG Journal · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicroRNA in disease regulation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersMultiple Sclerosis SocietyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Research ChairsMultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
KeywordsEpigeneticsDNA methylationmicroRNAHistoneMultiple sclerosisBiologyDiseaseGeneticsEpigenesisPhenotypeComputational biologyNeuroscienceGeneMedicineImmunologyGene expressionPathology

Abstract

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disease characterized by autoimmune demyelination of the myelin sheath of the central nervous system. Varying degrees of disability result from disruptions in neural, physical, and psychological processes. No clear cause of MS has been identified, but specific genetic mutations and environmental effects have been established as factors in disease development. However, the low disease concordance rates and transmission disequilibrium observed in MS prevent genetic factors alone from explaining increased susceptibility. As a result, the involvement of epigenetics, or heritable changes in the genome that are not caused by alterations in the underlying DNA sequence, has been proposed to resolve these apparent discrepancies. This article focuses on recent research into three primary epigenetic mechanisms and their relation to MS susceptibility: DNA methylation, histone modifications, and post-transcriptional regulation of target genes by microRNA. These epigenetic phenomena interact with each other and environmental stimuli to produce disease. Promising experimental research has revealed that inhibitors of such epigenetic activity reduce disease phenotypes in animal models. In this article, ways in which epigenetic changes can induce MS development are described and prospective research avenues are proposed.
 
 Keywords: epigenetics; multiple sclerosis (MS); DNA methylation; histones; microRNA (miRNA)

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.081
Threshold uncertainty score0.231

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it