Table 1.

Main characteristics of the individuals enrolled in the study.

Characteristic	Healthy controls	RRMS relapse	RRMS remission
Discovery set
No.	10	10	10
Female/male/P versus controls	6/4/P = 1.00	6/4/P = 1.00	6/4/P = 1.00
Age, years, mean ± SD/P versus controls	35.8 ± 7.4/P = 1.00	35.2 ± 9.0/P = 0.93	32.4 ± 9.0/P = 0.80
Disease duration, mean ± SD	–	4.7 ± 6.0	5.0 ± 6.4
EDSS, mean ± SD	–	3.4 ± 1.9	2.4 ± 1.1
Validation set
No.	27	18	27
Female/male/P versus controls	21/6/P = 0.85	11/7/P = 0.22	19/8/P = 0.53
Age, years, mean ± SD/P versus controls	34.7 ± 8.7/P = 1.00	36.8 ± 15.9/P = 0.85	36.3 ± 10.7/P = 0.85
Disease duration, mean ± SD	–	6.5 ± 9.2	5.0 ± 5.7
EDSS, mean ± SD	–	3.0 ± 0.8	1.5 ± 1.5