Table 1. Demographic features of the participants included to the mutation analysis.

	MS patients	Controls
Number	94**	99
RMS/SPMS/PPMS	80/10/4	-
Median age (range)	37 yrs (20–68)	35 yrs (19–70)
Mean age	39.4 yrs	39.8 yrs
Percentage females	72%	71%
EDSS* mean/median (range)	2.4/2.0 (0–6.5)	-

RMS, relapsing MS; SPMS, secondary progressive MS; PPMS, primarily progressive MS;

*EDSS, Expanded disability scale score at the time of sampling.

**Four MS patients were excluded from the mutation analysis, because their samples had low sequencing coverages.