Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and debilitating autoimmune disease with neurodegenerative properties (Haki M et al. (2024)). It is a heterogeneous disease with inflammatory effects on the central nervous system that can cause demyelination and neuronal loss (Doshi A et al. (2016)). There are multiple types of MS, including clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), secondary progressive MS (SPMS), and primary progressive MS (PPMS) (Haki M et al. (2024)). As with other autoimmune diseases, females are more likely to be diagnosed than males. Smoking is a risk factor that can increase the chance of MS by up to 50% (Dobson R et al. (2019)). Diagnosis occurs between 20 and 50 years of age, and those of northern European descent have a higher risk of developing the disease (Haki M et al. (2024)).

Differential abundance and machine learning analysis

This section presents the disease-specific results of the differential abundance and machine learning analyses. The analyses are reported for three comparisons: 1) disease vs. all other diseases, 2) disease vs. diseases from the same class, and 3) disease vs. healthy samples.

Disease vs All other
Disease vs Class
Disease vs Healthy