About the Authors

Hossain M. Nawaz

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Per Kylsten

Affiliation Europaskolan, Strängnäs, Sweden

Noriko Hamada

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Japan

Daisuke Yamamoto

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Japan

C. I. Edvard Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: C. I. Edvard Smith, Jessica M. Lindvall

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Jessica M. Lindvall

Contributed equally to this work with: C. I. Edvard Smith, Jessica M. Lindvall

jessica.lindvall@ki.se

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Expression Analysis, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, BioinformaticService, Saltsjö-Boo, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: J.M. Lindvall is partly employed by BioinformaticService, who provided bioinformatical consultancy help regarding the analyses in this study. J.M. Lindvall is also affiliated with the medical university, Karolinska Institutet. BioinformaticService declares no ownership in the results from the analyses in this work. P. Kylsten is employed by Europaskolan and Europaskolan is an upper secondary school and a college of higher learning and therefore a non-profit organisation. For both BioinformaticService and Europaskolan there are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JML CIES. Performed the experiments: HMN PK. Analyzed the data: JML HMN CIES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH DY. Wrote the paper: JML HMN CIES.