Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis

Summary

The purpose of this study is to better understand multiple sclerosis (MS) in children and adolescents, to learn if it differs from adult MS and to investigate if genes or environmental exposures or a combination of both put children and adolescents at risk for getting MS.

Conditions

• Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis

Sponsors & Collaborators

• New York University

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• Massachusetts General Hospital

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• State University of New York at Buffalo

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• University of Alabama at Birmingham

  collaborator OTHER

• Mayo Clinic

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  collaborator OTHER

• Boston Children's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Baylor College of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• Loma Linda University

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital Colorado

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Texas

  collaborator OTHER

• Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

  collaborator OTHER

• Washington University School of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's National Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Primary Children's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• The Cleveland Clinic

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, San Francisco

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Emmanuelle L Waubant, MD, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Max Age

21 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-10-31

Primary Completion

2018-04-30

Completion

2018-04-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations