Neurofilament light chain may serve as a cross-species blood biomarker to assess aging and predict mortality

• Carina Bergmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carina Bergmann, Lisa M. Häsler

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carina.bergmann@uni-tuebingen.de (CB); mathias.jucker@uni-tuebingen.de (MJ)

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany, Department of Cellular Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Lisa M. Häsler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carina Bergmann, Lisa M. Häsler

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany, Department of Cellular Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Marius Lambert,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany, Department of Cellular Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Stephan A. Kaeser,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany, Department of Cellular Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Stephanie A. Schultz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Barbara Riond,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Department of Clinical Diagnostics and Services, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Marco Weiss,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation LABOKLIN GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Kissingen, Germany

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• Martina Balz,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WILHELMA Zoological-Botanical Gardens, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Tobias Knauf-Witzens,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WILHELMA Zoological-Botanical Gardens, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Mathias Jucker

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carina.bergmann@uni-tuebingen.de (CB); mathias.jucker@uni-tuebingen.de (MJ)

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany, Department of Cellular Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9045-1072

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