The relationship of APOE genetic polymorphism with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis and its clinical phenotypes in Kuwaiti Arab subjects

In Kuwaitis, a population with low MS prevalence, no statistically significant associations between APOE genetic polymorphism and susceptibility to MS could be established, but there was a trend towards a lower APOE2 frequency with MS and towards increased frequency of APOE4 in female patients and with severe disease.