Abstract
Theiler's virus-induced demyelinating disease results from a chronic infection in the white matter of the central nervous system and provides an excellent model for human multiple sclerosis. Like multiple sclerosis, there are genetic risk factors in disease development, including genes associated with the major histocompatibility complex and with those encoding the β chain of the T-cell receptor. Comparisons of the susceptible DBA/2 and resistant C57BL/6 strains have indicated an important role for the H-2D locus and for a non-H-2 gene (not involving the β chain of the T-cell receptor) in differential susceptibility. In the present report, analysis of recombinant-inbred strains (BXD) between the DBA/2 and C57BL/6 strains indicated that this non-H-2 locus is located at the centromeric end of chromosome 3 near (4 ± 4 centimorgans) the carbonic anhydrase-2 (Car-2) enzyme locus.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 686-690 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of virology |
Volume | 64 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1990 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Insect Science
- Virology