Normal allele: CC
A polymorphism in the MERTK receptor tyrosine kinase gene is associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.
Polymorphism rs17174870 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
22164203 Perspectives on the use of multiple sclerosis risk genes for prediction.
22396755 Genomic regions associated with multiple sclerosis are active in B cells.
23094030 Protein-protein interaction analysis highlights additional loci of interest for multiple sclerosis.
23730204 Progress in multiple sclerosis genetics.
27540591 Multiple sclerosis risk loci and disease severity in 7,125 individuals from 10 studies.