Source:Mayo Clinic - LINK“In practical terms, this is what our findings suggest: How much of the protein known as ‘interferon gamma’ you produce appears to be a new key variable in understanding who gets MS and who doesn’t, and especially why women develop MS more often than men,” explains the study’s lead author, Mayo Clinic neurologist Brian Weinshenker, M.D. “If you have a gene that produces high levels of interferon gamma, it may predispose you to developing MS. Under this scenario, men get MS less often because they have a lower frequency of a gene variant that is related to higher secretion of interferon gamma.”