HGF correlated strongly with MCP-1/CCL2 both in MS patients and in healthy controls (rs = 0.4674, p<0.0001), whilst HGF correlated with Eotaxin/CCL11 (rs = 0.5574, p<0.0001) and Rantes/CCL5 (rs = 0.3317, p = 0.0002) only in MS patients. This evidence concerns the gene CCL11 and myeloid sarcoma.