{"id":1589,"date":"2026-03-13T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/ms-study-of-genetic-risk-factors-shows-need-for-diverse-data\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:00:49","slug":"ms-study-of-genetic-risk-factors-shows-need-for-diverse-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/ms-study-of-genetic-risk-factors-shows-need-for-diverse-data\/","title":{"rendered":"MS study of genetic risk factors shows need for diverse data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/03\/13\/ms-study-genetic-risk-factors-shows-need-diverse-data\/\" title=\"MS study of genetic risk factors shows need for diverse data\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2214510058-800x534.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A person in a white coat works in a lab.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"160408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many genetic factors that increase the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) are shared across ancestral backgrounds, a study identified a variant that may reduce MS risk in South Asian people, which had not been seen in European studies \u2014 suggesting\u00a0that studies focusing mainly on people of European descent may miss less common genetic variants [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/03\/13\/ms-study-genetic-risk-factors-shows-need-diverse-data\/\">MS study of genetic risk factors shows need for diverse data<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/03\/13\/ms-study-genetic-risk-factors-shows-need-diverse-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many genetic factors that increase the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) are shared across ancestral backgrounds, a study identified a variant that may reduce MS risk in South Asian people, which had not been seen in European studies \u2014 suggesting\u00a0that studies focusing mainly on people of European descent may miss less common genetic variants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}