Table 3.

Correlation coefficients of relative gene expressions with EDSS and Onset age in patient groups.

Variable	Covariate	Sporadic patients	Familial patients	All patients
Current EDSS	IL7R relative expression (log2)	−0.220 (0.204)	−0.097 (0.596)	−0.157 (0.204)
	NFATc2 relative expression (log2)	−0.130 (0.458)	0.013 (0.942)	−0.067 (0.588)
	RNF213 relative expression (log2)	0.054 (0.757)	0.070 (0.701)	−0.064 (0.604)
Onset age	IL7R relative expression (log2)	0.043 (0.810)	0.188 (0.390)	0.003 (0.980)
	NFATc2 relative expression (log2)	−0.272 (0.126)	0.057 (0.798)	−0.165 (0.224)
	RNF213 relative expression (log2)	−0.102 (0.570)	0.701 (0.748)	−0.032 (0.815)

Bold values denote statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level.