Table 1.

Clinical and demographic information about the included MS patients and healthy controls

			Healthy controls
	MS patients		ASE analyses		Western blot analyses
Variable	n=		n=		n=
Male : Female ratio	92	1 : 3.4	14	1 : 4.7	32	1 : 1.5
Age in years, mean (range) at sampling	92	50 (19–80)	14	39 (22–57)	32	37 (21–68)
Age in years, mean (range) at disease onset	89	35 (14–60)
Disease course at onset, fraction of relapsing-remitting MS	86	0.87
Oligoclonal bands, positive fraction	68	0.91