About the Authors

Arundhati Ray

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Human and Translational Immunology Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Anthony A. Amato

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth M. Bradshaw

Affiliation Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin J. Felice

Affiliations Neuromuscular Program, Hospital for Special Care, New Britain, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Daniel B. DiCapua

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jonathan M. Goldstein

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ingrid E. Lundberg

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Richard J. Nowak

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Hidde L. Ploegh

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric Spooner

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qian Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Simon N. Willis

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon N. Willis, Kevin C. O’Connor

Current address: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Human and Translational Immunology Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kevin C. O’Connor

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon N. Willis, Kevin C. O’Connor

kevin.oconnor@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Human and Translational Immunology Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR SNW EMB HLP KCO. Performed the experiments: AR SNW ES EMB KCO. Analyzed the data: AR ES HLP EMB SNW KCO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJN JMG QW KJF IEL DBD AAA. Wrote the paper: AR SNW IEL EMB KCO.