New genetic links to Multiple Sclerosis found

The state of genetic research as it applies to disease treatment continues to increase every year from what the media reports. Will there one day be some kind of "cure" for conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and perhaps Multiple Sclerosis?

When it comes to MS, two new genes have been identified that may raise the risk of MS, giving medical researchers possible views into the actual causes of the disease itself.

It's been two decades of dead ends for scientists when it came to studying MS; at least, until now. The exhaustive study revealed two genes responsible for autoimmune disease after scanning the entire human genome of more than 12,000 MS sufferers for possible causes.