About the Authors

Rui Lin

Affiliation Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Jac Charlesworth

Affiliation Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Jim Stankovich

Affiliations Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Victoria M. Perreau

Affiliation Centre for Neurosciences, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Matthew A. Brown

Affiliation University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia

ANZgene Consortium

Membership of the Australia and New Zealand Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (ANZgene) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Bruce V. Taylor

Bruce.Taylor@utas.edu.au

Affiliation Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS. Performed the experiments: MAB ANZgene Consortium. Analyzed the data: RL JS VMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ANZgene Consortium. Wrote the paper: RL JS VMP JC BVT.