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This study was supported by the Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla (FISM) Cod. 2008/R/7 to F.C., by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research (MIUR grant 2007KXNKNP) and by US National Institutes of Health contract NO1-AG-1-2109 from National Institute of Aging (NIA) to the SardiNIA ('ProgeNIA') team. The contributions of G.R.A., Y.L. and L.L. were supported in part by NIH grants HG002651, HG005214 and MH084698.

We thank all the cases and controls who made this research possible; J. Todd for a critical revision of the manuscript and helpful suggestions; A. Cao for his continuous help and support; D. Longo, D. Taub, S. Naitza, L. Crisponi, M. Congia, C. Jones, P. Zanella, R. Tirler, L. Leoni, R. Cusano, R. Lampis, V. Orrù, F. Coraddu, J. Foster, M. Luiu, L. Davolio Marani, S. Solveig Fois and M. Arru for help and advice; J. Frau, L. Lorefice, G. Coghe, G. Fenu, L. Mannu, P. Cossu, W. Satta, I. Pirastru, S. Leoni and C. Buscarinu for collaboration in the collection of MS cases; and W. Garau and F. Virdis, along with the personnel of the blood donor centers of Cagliari and Sassari, for their help in the collection of the controls. We are grateful for the important computing resources made available for the imputation and analysis by the CRS4 Computing Cluster in Pula (Cagliari, Italy).

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1. Serena Sanna, Maristella Pitzalis and Magdalena Zoledziewska: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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1. Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Monserrato, Italy
   Serena Sanna, Carlo Sidore, Fabio Busonero, Andrea Maschio, Mariano Dei, Sandra Lai, Antonella Mulas, Gianmauro Cuccuru, Eleonora Porcu, Manuela Uda & Francesco Cucca
2. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
   Maristella Pitzalis, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Francesca Deidda, Fausto Poddie, Laura Morelli, Elisa Deriu & Francesco Cucca
3. Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Laboratorio di Bioinformatica, Parco tecnologico della Sardegna, Pula, Italy
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4. CRS4, Laboratorio di Genomica, Parco tecnologico della Sardegna, Pula, Italy
   Carlo Sidore, Michael B Whalen, M Francesca Urru & Andrea Angius
5. Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Cardiovascolari, Centro Sclerosi Multipla, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
   Raffaele Murru, Gianna Costa, Maria Cristina Melis, Loredana Moi, Eleonora Cocco & Maria Giovanna Marrosu
6. Istituto di Neurologia Clinica, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
   Gabriele Farina, Stefano Sotgiu, Maura Pugliatti & Giulio Rosati
7. Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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8. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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9. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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10. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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11. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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12. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e biotecnologie, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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16. Divisione Neurologia, Presidio Ospedaliero, Ozieri, Italy
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17. Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Sanna, S., Pitzalis, M., Zoledziewska, M. et al. Variants within the immunoregulatory CBLB gene are associated with multiple sclerosis.Nat Genet 42, 495–497 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.584

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• Received: 21 December 2009
• Accepted: 13 April 2010
• Published: 09 May 2010
• Issue Date: June 2010
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.584