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Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis
Interventions: Biological sample collection
Countries: France
MS is a heterogeneous disease either in its response to treatment or clinical manifestation. Indeed, the natural history of MS is varying from a benign condition to a devastating and rapidly incapacitating disease. Clinical heterogeneity could also be cellular and / or molecular. The aim is to identify from OMIC analyses, at the early stage of the disease, differentially expressed molecules and / or cell subpopulations derived from CD8 + T lymphocytes and / or CD4 + T lymphocytes and / or B lymphocytes and monocytes from patients with aggressive versus non-aggressive, compared to a cohort of healthy controls
Sex: ALL
Age: 18 Years to —
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Inclusion Criteria : Common criteria for retrospective MS patients: * Patients aged 18 years or older * Clinical isolated syndrome (CIS) with or without dissemination in space * Patients affiliated to an appropriate health insurance Criteria for Aggressive MS group • Start of a 2nd line therapy within the two years following the CIS Criteria for Non aggressive MS group * No conversion according to McDonald criteria from clinical isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis within 2 years or * Conversion based to McDonald criteria treated or not with first line disease modifying therapy within 2 years. * Have a minimum of least 2 years of follow-up. Healthy volunteers * Aged 18 years or older * No history of clinically isolated syndrome or MS Pairing criteria : * Age +/- 5 years * Sex Prospective MS Patients * Patients aged 18 years or older * Clinical isolated syndrome (CIS) with or without dissemination in space * Patients affiliated to an appropriate health insurance Exclusion Criteria : * Ongoing participation to a another study * Refusal to genetic analyses * Immunosuppressive drug at the time of blood collection * Plasma exchange or corticosteroid treatment within the four weeks prior to blood sample * Adults under a legal protection regime (guardianship, trusteeship, judicial safeguard) * Pregnancy
- Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France