{"id":111864,"date":"2020-08-24T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/genetic-variants-may-explain-high-levels-of-antibodies-against-epstein-barr-virus-in-ms-study-suggests"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:42:29","slug":"genetic-variants-may-explain-high-levels-of-antibodies-against-epstein-barr-virus-in-ms-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/genetic-variants-may-explain-high-levels-of-antibodies-against-epstein-barr-virus-in-ms-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Variants May Explain High Levels of Antibodies Against Epstein-Barr Virus in MS, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-variants-may-explain-high-levels-of-antibodies-against-epstein-barr-virus-in-ms-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genetic variants may contribute to increased levels of antibodies against proteins of the <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/2018\/04\/23\/epstein-barr-virus-may-increase-risk-ms-other-diseases\/\">Epstein-Barr virus<\/a> \u2014 a known environmental risk factor for <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/multiple-sclerosis-overview\/\">multiple sclerosis<\/a> (MS) \u2014 in MS patients and their siblings, a study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cEBNA-1 titer gradient in families with multiple sclerosis indicates a genetic contribution,\u201d was published in the journal Neurology, Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic variants may contribute to increased levels of antibodies against proteins of the Epstein-Barr virus \u2014 a known environmental risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS) \u2014 in MS patients and their siblings, a study suggests. The study, \u201cEBNA-1 titer gradient in families with multiple sclerosis indicates a genetic contribution,\u201d was published in the journal Neurology, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}