About the Authors

Friedemann Paul

Contributed equally to this work with: Friedemann Paul, Sonia Waiczies, Jens Wuerfel

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Sonia Waiczies

Contributed equally to this work with: Friedemann Paul, Sonia Waiczies, Jens Wuerfel

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jens Wuerfel

Contributed equally to this work with: Friedemann Paul, Sonia Waiczies, Jens Wuerfel

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Judith Bellmann-Strobl

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jan Dörr

Affiliations Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany

Helmar Waiczies

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Mareile Haertle

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Klaus D. Wernecke

Affiliation Sostana, Department of Medical Statistics, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Dieter Volk

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Orhan Aktas

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Frauke Zipp

frauke.zipp@charite.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology in the HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FZ FP OA SW JW JB. Performed the experiments: FP SW JW JB JD HW. Analyzed the data: FZ FP OA HV SW JW JB JD HW MH KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HV. Wrote the paper: FZ FP OA SW JW.