About the Authors

Johan Mellergård

Contributed equally to this work with: Johan Mellergård, Måns Edström

johan.mellergard@lio.se

Affiliation Neurology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, and Department of Neurology, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Måns Edström

Contributed equally to this work with: Johan Mellergård, Måns Edström

Affiliation Clinical Immunology, Unit of Autoimmunity and Immune Regulation, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Maria C. Jenmalm

Affiliation Clinical Immunology, Unit of Autoimmunity and Immune Regulation, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Charlotte Dahle

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Magnus Vrethem

Affiliation Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, and Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Jan Ernerudh

Affiliations Clinical Immunology, Unit of Autoimmunity and Immune Regulation, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

J. Mellergård has received speaker honorary from Biogen Idec. M. Edström has received speaker honorary from Biogen Idec. C. Dahle has received speaker honoraria from Biogen Idec and Merck Serono. M. Vrethem has received an unrestricted grant for research from Biogen Idec and speaker honoraria from Biogen Idec and Merck Serono. 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: JM ME MJ CD MV JE. Performed the experiments: ME JM. Analyzed the data: JM ME JE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ CD MV JE. Wrote the manuscript: JM ME JE.