摘要 |
Methods of diagnosing demyelinating disease including multiple sclerosis (MS), subgrouping patients suffering from such disease including MS and/or monitoring the stage of activity of demyelinating disease including MS based on the detection, in a retroviral particle or an encapsidated virion-like particle, of the RGH virus-derived SEQ ID NO:1 or a subsequence or variant hereof and diagnostic agents comprising probes capable of hybridizing to such sequences, subsequences or variants, antibodies reacting with epitopes of proteins or peptides encoded by sequences, subsequences or variant and/or such epitopes for such methods are provided. |