Multiple sclerosis (MS) most commonly affects individuals of Northern European descent
who live in countries at high latitude. The relative contributions of ancestry, country of birth …

Self‐reported ancestry data for the US population from the 1980 decennial census and
multiple sclerosis (MS) risk data derived from a large series of World War II white male …

Previously, we studied the effect of population ancestry on the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS)
in US veterans of World War II, comparing by state 1980 US census ancestry data with MS …

Objectives Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a high prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS). In
recent decades there has been substantial immigration to Oslo from Asia, the Middle East …

Migration from an area where MS is common to an area where it is rare (and vice versa)
affects the risk of MS, provided migration occurs in childhood. A childhood infection might …

Age at onset of multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms was ascertained for subsets of some 4,400
veterans of World War II who had been adjudged''service-connected''for this condition …

Multiple sclerosis is a disease with a highly variable incidence worldwide. While knowledge
about multiple sclerosis risk factors has grown over the years, the aetiology of multiple …

The oversimplified but commonly accepted belief, based on the comparison of the
prevalence studies conducted until 1980, that the distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) in …

Importance Racial, ethnic, and geographic differences in multiple sclerosis (MS) are
important factors to assess when determining the disease burden and allocating health care …

Background and Objectives The goal of this work was to determine whether the prevalence
of multiple sclerosis (MS) varies by race and ethnicity. Methods We conducted a …