Table 6.
Prevalence of Systemic Autoimmunity Among Stated Categories
| Patient Subgroup | Relatives, No. With Systemic Autoimmunity/Total No. (%)
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| First-Degree Relatives | Second-Degree Relatives | Female Relatives | Male Relatives | Maternal Relatives | Paternal Relatives | |
| All WSS | 57/450 (13) | 49/646 (8) | 73/578 (13) | 33/519 (6) | 31/380 (8) | 18/266 (7) |
| MFC/PIC, AZOOR, or birdshot chorioretinopathy only (n = 854) | 51/361 (14) | 43/493 (9) | 65/450 (14) | 29/404 (7) | 27/292 (9) | 16/201 (8) |
| MFC/PIC (n = 557) | 30/211 (14) | 30/346 (9) | 42/299 (14) | 18/258 (7) | 16/192 (8) | 14/154 (9) |
| AZOOR (n = 163) | 12/85 (14) | 8/78 (10) | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Birdshot chorioretinopathy (n = 134) | 9/65 (14) | 5/69 (7) | 11/73 (15) | 3/61 (5) | 4/51 (8) | 1/18 (6) |
| MEWDS (n = 128) | 4/42 (10) | 5/86 (6) | 5/80 (6) | 4/48 (8) | 3/50 (6) | 2/36 (6) |
| APMPPE (n = 48) | 0/15 | 0/33 | 0/20 | 0/29 | 0/14 | 0/19 |
| Serpiginous choroiditis (n = 37) | 1/20 (5) | 0/17 | 1/18 (6) | 0/19 | 0/11 | 0/6 |
Abbreviations: APMPPE, acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy; AZOOR, acute zonal occult outer retinopathy; MEWDS, multiple evanescent white dot syndrome; MFC/PIC, multifocal choroiditis/punctate inner choroidopathy; NA, not applicable; WSS, white spot syndromes.