About the Authors

Rocio Castro-Seoane

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Holger Hummerich

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Trevor Sweeting

Affiliation Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

M. Howard Tattum

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Jacqueline M. Linehan

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Mar Fernandez de Marco

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Sebastian Brandner

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

John Collinge

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Peter-Christian Klöhn

p.kloehn@prion.ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCS PCK. Performed the experiments: RCS MHT MF. Analyzed the data: RCS HH TS JML MF SB PCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS. Wrote the paper: PCK TS JC.