About the Authors

Parameswaran Mahadeva Iyer

parames68@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Catriona Egan

Affiliations School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Marta Pinto-Grau

Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Tom Burke

Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Marwa Elamin

Affiliations School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Bahman Nasseroleslami

Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Niall Pender

Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Edmund C. Lalor

Affiliations School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Orla Hardiman

Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Competing Interests

Prof. Orla Hardiman has received speaking honorarium from Janssen Cilag, Biogen Idec, Sanofi Aventis, Novartis and Merck-Serono. She has also been a member of advisory panels for Biogen Idec, Allergen, Ono Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Cytokinetics and Sanofi Aventis. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia, and has received funding from Health Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no: 259867, ALSA (the ALS Association), HRB (the Health Research Board, grant H01300), Joint Programme in Neurodegeneration (JPND), The Trinity College Colm Murray Fellowship and Research Motor Neuron (previously named Motor Neuron Disease Research Foundation). The other authors have no financial support to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMI ECL ME NP OH. Performed the experiments: PMI CE TB MP-G. Analyzed the data: CE TB PMI BN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE PMI TB MP-G NP ECL OH. Wrote the paper: PMI CE MPG TB ME BN NP ECL OH. Draft revision: PMI ECL OH. Study supervision: ECL OH.