Compared to the MS spectrum, CNS autoimmune patients were older, more frequently females, with increased rates of hypertension/hyperlipidemia, family history of autoimmunity, cortical dysfunction, anti-nuclear antibody titers ≥1/320, anticardiolipin IgM positivity, and atypical for MS magnetic resonance imaging lesions. This evidence concerns the gene CD40LG and Autoimmunity.