About the Authors

Tiago F. Outeiro

bhyman@partners.org (BTH); touteiro@fm.ul.pt (TFO)

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cell and Molecular Neuroscience Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, and Instituto de Fisiologia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Jochen Klucken

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Molecular Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Kathryn Bercury

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Julie Tetzlaff

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Preeti Putcha

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luis M. A. Oliveira

Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia Molecular, Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz, Monte da Caparica, Portugal

Alexandre Quintas

Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia Molecular, Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz, Monte da Caparica, Portugal

Pamela J. McLean

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bradley T. Hyman

bhyman@partners.org (BTH); touteiro@fm.ul.pt (TFO)

Affiliations MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimer Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TFO AQ PJM BTH. Performed the experiments: TFO JK KB JT PP LMAO. Analyzed the data: TFO. Wrote the paper: TFO PJM BTH.