Aaron Boster

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Oh, I would love it.

Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah.

That's really great.

Yes, kind of.

So if you have one autoimmune disease, you're statistically more likely to have a second autoimmune disease.

And in this setting of MS, the most common second autoimmune disease is actually thyroid.

But you will see constellations.

Now, that doesn't mean that everyone with MS is going to get a second autoimmune disease, but compared to the general population, 100%.

And

If you have MS, I can find someone in your extended family with some autoimmune condition almost always.

Now, it doesn't mean that someone else has MS, but it could be that an aunt has Graves' disease or an uncle has type 1 diabetes or something else.

And again, this goes back to, in part, some of the shared genetics that we see.

So they're spot on.

Yes, is the answer.

It's a very hot topic.

Right now, we feel rather confident that EBV, mono, as we were talking about earlier, is probably a prerequisite to developing multiple sclerosis.

We can't find evidence right now of other infections doing that.

It's an ongoing debate, and it's an ongoing area of research.