Alastair Compston

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies(75), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms(38), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms(25), T-cell and B-cell Immunology(20), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders(20)

Publications217 total

A disease-specific convergence of host and Epstein–Barr virus genetics in multiple sclerosis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Genetic mapping across autoimmune diseases reveals shared associations and mechanisms
Nature Genetics·2024· 28 citedOpen Access
The philosopher of the nervous system
Brain·2022Open Access
‘The hearths and altars for the vital fire’
2021
‘The happy curing of cephalick diseases’
2021
'All manner of ingenuity and industry'
2021· 5 cited
‘Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre’
2021
‘Those first forgotten particles’
2021
‘Addicted to the opening of heads’
2021
‘To understand all things but itself’
2021
Introduction
2021
‘The mystery and school house of nature’
2021
‘Neurologie: the doctrine of the nerves’
2021
Etymology and the neuron(e)
Brain·2019· 26 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: A systems biology approach uncovers cell-specific gene regulatory effects of genetic associations in multiple sclerosis
Nature Communications·2019· 5 citedOpen Access
A systems biology approach uncovers cell-specific gene regulatory effects of genetic associations in multiple sclerosis
Nature Communications·2019· 80 citedOpen Access
Introduction
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2018· 1 cited
Preface
2018
150th anniversary of clinical description of multiple sclerosis
Neurology·2018· 7 cited
Multiple sclerosis risk variants alter expression of co-stimulatory genes in B cells
Brain·2017· 50 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Stephen Sawcer(17), Alasdair Coles(10), Siddharthan Chandran(8), Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance(7), Jorge R. Oksenberg(7), Mark Wing(7), Stephen L. Hauser(6), G Hale(6), Herman Waldmann(6), Maria Ban(6), Philip L. De Jager(5), Jacob L. McCauley(5), Siddharthan Chandran(5), Sergio E. Baranzini(4), Jonathan L. Haines(4), David Clayton(4), Francesca Coraddu(4), Alexis Joannides(4), Lisa F. Barcellos(4), Alastair Wilkins(4)