Supplementary Table 2.

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium tests for all Chinese Han participants in this study

SNP	Candidate gene	MS		HC
		χ2	P	χ2	P
Stage 1
rs228614	NFKB1/MANBA	1.69	0.19	0.07	0.79
rs744166	STAT3	5.95	0.02	2.66	0.10
rs2300603	BATF	1.23	0.27	0.62	0.43
rs4410871	MYC	1.09	0.30	1.82	0.18
rs4902647	ZFP36L1	0.02	0.90	1.42	0.23
rs9321619	OLIG3	0.48	0.49	0.01	0.92
rs11129295	EOMES	0.77	0.38	0.13	0.72
rs11154801	MYB/AHI1	1.72	0.19	0.92	0.34
Stage 2
rs11129295	EOMES	2.91	0.09	2.16	0.14
Stage 1 + 2
rs11129295	EOMES	2.67	0.10	1.64	0.20

MS: Multiple sclerosis; HC: Healthy controls.