Clinical and demographic data of the relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients included in the study.

1Two or more oligoclonal bands in CSF at isoelectric focusing that were not present in serum.2Number of weeks after treatment starts when blood samples were taken.3Patient 2 had previously used interferon-β1a treatment, the others were treatment naive.Abbreviations: GA = glatiramer acetate, M = Male, F = Female, ON = Optic Neuritis, EDSS = Expanded disability status scale, OCB = Oligoclonal Bands, ND = No data.