{"id":1640,"date":"2026-03-19T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/close-relatives-of-ms-patients-face-100-times-higher-risk-of-developing-disorder\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:15:45","slug":"close-relatives-of-ms-patients-face-100-times-higher-risk-of-developing-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/close-relatives-of-ms-patients-face-100-times-higher-risk-of-developing-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Close relatives of MS patients face 100 times higher risk of developing disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/03\/19\/close-relatives-ms-patients-higher-risk-developing-disorder\/\" title=\"Close relatives of MS patients face 100 times higher risk of developing disorder\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2172316440-800x534.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A girl sits on her mother&#039;s lap and enjoys a laugh with her parents.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"160527\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close relatives of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) are 100 times more likely to develop the neurological disorder than the general population, according to a new analysis of GEMS data. Among participants in GEMS, a large-scale observational study assessing MS risk among family members, about half said they would participate in a clinical trial aimed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/03\/19\/close-relatives-ms-patients-higher-risk-developing-disorder\/\">Close relatives of MS patients face 100 times higher risk of developing disorder<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/03\/19\/close-relatives-ms-patients-higher-risk-developing-disorder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close relatives of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) are 100 times more likely to develop the neurological disorder than the general population, according to a new analysis of GEMS data. Among participants in GEMS, a large-scale observational study assessing MS risk among family members, about half said they would participate in a clinical trial aimed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}