Evaluation of an Online Platform for Multiple Sclerosis Research: Patient Description, Validation of Severity Scale, and Exploration of BMI Effects on Disease Course

Riley Bove; Elizabeth Secor; Brian C. Healy; Alexander Musallam; Timothy Vaughan; Bonnie I. Glanz; Emily Greeke; Howard L. Weiner; Tanuja Chitnis; Paul Wicks; Philip L. De Jager

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059707

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Evaluation of an Online Platform for Multiple Sclerosis Research: Patient Description, Validation of Severity Scale, and Exploration of BMI Effects on Disease Course

Riley Bove,

Affiliations Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Department of Neurology, Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Elizabeth Secor,

Affiliation Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Department of Neurology, Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Brian C. Healy,

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Alexander Musallam,

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Timothy Vaughan,

Affiliation PatientsLikeMe, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Bonnie I. Glanz,

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Emily Greeke,

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Howard L. Weiner,

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Tanuja Chitnis,

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Paul Wicks,

Affiliation PatientsLikeMe, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Philip L. De Jager

* E-mail: pdejager@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Department of Neurology, Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Partners MS Center, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Evaluation of an Online Platform for Multiple Sclerosis Research: Patient Description, Validation of Severity Scale, and Exploration of BMI Effects on Disease Course

Riley Bove,
Elizabeth Secor,
Brian C. Healy,
Alexander Musallam,
Timothy Vaughan,
Bonnie I. Glanz,
Emily Greeke,
Howard L. Weiner,
Tanuja Chitnis,
Paul Wicks

Published: March 20, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059707

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