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NEURON
Volume 92, Issue 2, Pages 339-341Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.053
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Identifying rare genetic variants that drive the onset of disease is challenging, even before considering the additional genetic and environmental influences that likely exist in complex diseases. We recently published a study proposing a rare variant in the NR1H3 gene (p.R415Q, rs61731956) as responsible for the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS) in two multi-incident families (Wang et al., 2016). This publication has generated much discussion, and fortunately the possibility to validate a finding or prove it spurious can occur rapidly in genetic studies. All novel discoveries must be replicated, and best efforts should be made to ensure that these replications use the appropriate samples and approach, and provide the correct interpretation of the results. This Matters Arising Response paper addresses the Minikel and MacArthur (2016) and The International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (2016) Matters Arising papers, published concurrently in Neuron.
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