Parents with MS possible Transmitters of Disease

Thursday, June 28 (Bodyhealthsoul Health News)--

A new study has stated that men and women with multiple sclerosis are just as likely to transmit the genetic risk of the disease to their children.

The study went on to add that fathers are twice as likely as mothers to pass the risk of MS to their children.

It was reported that the new study looked at 3,088 Canadian families that included a parent with MS. Of the 8,401 children in these families, 798 had MS.

According to study author Dr. George Ebers, a professor of clinical neurology at the University of Oxford, said in a prepared statement; "We also found there were equal numbers of daughters and sons receiving the genetic risk of the disease from their parents, intriguingly, we also found when half siblings both have MS, there is a clear maternal effect with mothers much more likely to be the common parent."

Background investigation into the study depicts that Ebers and his colleagues found no evidence to support a recently published study's conclusion that men are more resistant to MS because they carry a higher genetic load.

In conclusion, Ebers states that : "Our study involved 16 times as many people as the previous published study. It casts further doubt on the widely believed multiple gene mode of inheritance of susceptibility to MS."

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