Ethnicity study

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Ethnicity study (click here to read)

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When Shiv Sharma was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis he was the only South Asian he knew with the condition. Now, seven years later, about 12% of the MS patients treated at London's Charing Cross Hospital are of a South Asian background. Dr Omar Malik, a consultant neurologist at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, said he now wanted to know why UK-born South Asians, such as Shiv, seem to be more susceptible than those who migrated to this country as adults. But he said the reason for this had not been studied. So he and colleagues at St James's Hospital, Leeds, Luke's Hospital in Bradford and Leicester Royal Infirmary, are recruiting 200 South Asians with MS to analyse their DNA.

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Date:
31/10/2009 00:13:49

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