Table 1.

Age and gender of Japanese participants

		1st set			2nd set		Validation set
		MSA-C	MSA-P	Control	MSA-C	Control	MSA	Control
Number of subjects		24	24	24	40	40	245	212
Gender (M/F)		12/12	12/12	12/12	20/20	20/20	110/135	120/92
Age	Mean ± SE$ p* (vs. control)	60.3 ± 2.4 0.98	64.7 ± 1.3 0.12	60.3 ± 2.0	62.3 ± 1.4 0.84	62.7 ± 1.6	63.9 ± 0.6 < 0.01	52.8 ± 1.2
	Onset	36–73	46–77		36–76		36 – 83

*: student’s t-test p < 0.05: statistically significant ^$: age at sampling M: male F: female