Narcolepsy is strongly associated with the T-cell receptor alpha locus
Joachim Hallmayer
,
Juliette Faraco
,
Ling Lin
,
Stephanie Hesselson
,
Juliane Winkelmann
,
Minae Kawashima
,
Geert Mayer
,
Giuseppe Plazzi
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Sona Nevsimalova
,
Patrice Bourgin
,
Sheng Seung-Chul Hong
,
Yutaka Honda
,
Makoto Honda
,
Birgit H|[ouml]|gl
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William T Longstreth
,
Jacques Montplaisir
,
David Kemlink
,
Mali Einen
,
Justin Chen
,
Stacy L Musone
,
Matthew Akana
,
Taku Miyagawa
,
Jubao Duan
,
Alex Desautels
,
Christine Erhardt
,
Per Egil Hesla
,
Francesca Poli
,
Birgit Frauscher
,
Jong-Hyun Jeong
,
Sung-Pil Lee
,
Thanh G N Ton
,
Mark Kvale
,
Libor Kolesar
,
Marie Dobrovoln|[aacute]|
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Gerald T Nepom
,
Dan Salomon
,
H-Erich Wichmann
,
Guy A Rouleau
,
Christian Gieger
,
Douglas F Levinson
,
Pablo V Gejman
,
Thomas Meitinger
,
Terry Young
,
Paul Peppard
,
Katsushi Tokunaga
,
Pui-Yan Kwok
,
Neil Risch
&
Emmanuel Mignot
Abstract
Narcolepsy with cataplexy, characterized by sleepiness and rapid onset into REM sleep, affects 1 in 2,000 individuals. Narcolepsy was first shown to be tightly associated with HLA-DR2 (ref.
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