About the Authors

Arndt Rolfs

arndt.rolfs@med.uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Anne-Katrin Giese

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Ulrike Grittner

Affiliation Department for Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité-University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Daniel Mascher

Affiliation pharm-analyt Labor GmbH, Baden, Austria

Deborah Elstein

Affiliation Gaucher Clinic, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Ari Zimran

Affiliation Gaucher Clinic, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Tobias Böttcher

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Jan Lukas

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Rayk Hübner

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Uta Gölnitz

Affiliation Centogene GmbH, Rostock, Germany

Anja Röhle

Affiliation Centogene GmbH, Rostock, Germany

Ales Dudesek

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Wolfgang Meyer

Affiliation Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom

Matthias Wittstock

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Hermann Mascher

Affiliation pharm-analyt Labor GmbH, Baden, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: co-authors Daniel Mascher and Hermann Mascher are employed by pharm-analyt Labor GmbH, coauthors Uta Gölnitz and Anja Röhle are employed by the funder of this study Centogene GmbH. 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: A.Rolfs AG TB HM. Performed the experiments: DM U.Golnitz A.Rohle HM. Analyzed the data: A.Rolfs AG U.Grittner JL RH HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM DE AZ TB U.Grittner U.Golnitz HM. Wrote the paper: A.Rolfs AG DE AZ TB JL RH AD WM MW HM.