MBP and irritable bowel syndrome: Women veterans with GWI exhibited significantly increased (p < 0.01) mean levels of 8 out of 10 autoantibodies when compared with the combined female control group (IBS, ME/CFS, healthy control GW veterans) including tubulin, tau, MAP-2, MBP, MAG, NFP, CamKII, and α-syn (Table 4).