Table 1.
Clinical and demographic data of patient specimens.
Subject | Age and Gender | Disease duration (years) |
MS course | AGS score1 |
---|---|---|---|---|
MS-1 | 38/F | NA | RRMS | 10.0 |
MS-2 | 65/M | NA | CPMS2 | 14.5 |
MS-3 | 43/F | 20 | CPMS2 | 11.9 |
MS-4 | 39/F | 13 | CPMS2 | 11.0 |
CSF-MS3 | 41/F | 7 | RRMS | 10.94 |
CSF-OND5 | 58/2F:1M | NR | NR | 4.56 |
PB-MS7 | 41/F | <1 | RRMS | 2.08 |
Abbreviations: MS: multiple sclerosis, CSF: cerebrospinal fluid, OND: other neurological disease, PB: peripheral blood, F: female, M: male, NA: not available, NR: not relevant, RRMS: Relapsing-remitting MS, CPMS: Chronic progessive MS,
Number of VH4 sequences in AGS calculations: MS-1=20; MS-2=12, MS-3=9, MS-4=30, CSF-MS=128, CSF-OND=15, PB-MS=40
Pathology reports for these patients state “chronic progressive” with no additional history provided to determine whether these patients had primary or secondary progressive MS.
CD19+ CSF B cells were collected from 10 RRMS patients and 1 PPMS patient as published in (Cameron et al., 2009).
AGS score analysis from (Cameron et al., 2009). Scores represent averages of each cohort.
CD19+ CSF B cells were collected from 3 OND patients as published in (Cameron et al., 2009).
CD19+ peripheral B cells were collected from 3 RRMS patients as published in (Cameron et al., 2009).