About the Authors

Janine Arloth

Contributed equally to this work with: Janine Arloth, Gökcen Eraslan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Gökcen Eraslan

Contributed equally to this work with: Janine Arloth, Gökcen Eraslan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Till F. M. Andlauer

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Jade Martins

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Stella Iurato

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Brigitte Kühnel

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology and Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Melanie Waldenberger

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology and Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany

Josef Frank

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany

Ralf Gold

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Bernhard Hemmer

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany

Felix Luessi

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, University Medicine Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Sandra Nischwitz

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Friedemann Paul

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Department of Neurology, and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, and Charitϩ –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Heinz Wiendl

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Christian Gieger

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology and Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Bonn and Division of Genomics, Life & Brain Research Centre, University of Bonn School of Medicine, Bonn, Germany

Tim Kacprowski

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Junior Research Group on Computational Systems Medicine, Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Matthias Laudes

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department I of Internal Medicine, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Thomas Meitinger

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany and Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Annette Peters

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Rajesh Rawal

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Konstantin Strauch

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany and Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Susanne Lucae

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Marcella Rietschel

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Fabian J. Theis

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Elisabeth B. Binder

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, United States of America

Nikola S. Mueller

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

nikola.mueller@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.