Familial History of Autoimmune Disorders Among Patients With Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis

Benjamin M Greenberg¹, Theron Charles Casper², Soe S Mar²+28

• ¹From the University of Texas Southwestern (B.M.G.), Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Dallas; Data Coordinating and Analysis Center (T.C.C., S.S.R., K.D.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Washington University (S.S.M.), St. Louis, MO; University of Alabama Birmingham (J.M.N.); The University of Texas Southwestern (P.P.), Department of Neurology, Dallas; Department of Radiology (S.L., M.G.), Washington University in St. Louis, MO; Jacobs Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (B.W.-G.), State University of New York at Buffalo, NY; Mayo Clinic Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (M.R., J.-M.T.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (G.S.A.), Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, CA; Lourie Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (A.B.), Stony Brook University Hospital, NY; Epidemiology (L.F.B.), University of California, Berkeley; Department of Neurology (J.W.R.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders Program (M.P.G., L.A.B.), Boston Children's Hospital, MA; Primary Children's Hospital (M.C.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Partners Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (T.C.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Center for Pediatric-Onset Demyelinating Disease (Y.C.H.), Children's Hospital of Alabama, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Children's National Medical Center (I.L.K.), Washington, DC; Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (J.H.), University of California San Francisco; The Blue Bird Circle Clinic for Multiple Sclerosis (T.E.L.), Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis (M.R.), Cleveland Clinic, OH; Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (J.P.R.), IL; Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center (T.L.S.), Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (A.T.W.), PA; Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (L.K.), New York University; Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (J.G.), University of California San Diego; and Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center (E.W.), University of California San Francisco. benjamin.greenberg@utsouthwestern.edu.+1