Margaret Pericak-Vance

Director of the Miami Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami

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Director of the Miami Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami

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Multiple Sclerosis is a neurological disease that causes symptoms ranging from muscle weakness to paralysis. Its causes are environmental as well as genetic.

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