About the Authors

Emmanuelle Leray

emmanuelle.leray@ehesp.fr

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, EHESP Rennes, Sorbonne Paris Cité; CIC-P 1414, CHU Rennes, West Neuroscience Network of Excellence (WENNE), Rennes, France

Sandra Vukusic

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Lyon, Observatoire Français de la Sclérose En Plaques (OFSEP), Lyon, France

Marc Debouverie

Affiliation ReLSEP, Lorraine Register of MS, EA 4360, Department of Neurology, CHU Nancy, Nancy, France

Michel Clanet

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Bruno Brochet

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Jérôme de Sèze

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hopitaux Universitaire de Strasbourg, Clinical investigation center (CIC INSERM 1434) and UMR INSERM 1119/Federation de Medecine translationnelle (FMTS), Strasbourg, France

Hélène Zéphir

Affiliation Université de Lille, Department of Neurology, Hôpital Roger Salengro, CHRU de Lille, Lille, France

Gilles Defer

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Caen, Caen, France

Christine Lebrun-Frenay

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Nice, Nice, France

Thibault Moreau

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Dijon, Dijon, France

Pierre Clavelou

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Jean Pelletier

Affiliation APHM, Hôpital de La Timone, Pôle de Neurosciences Cliniques, Department of Neurology, Marseille, France

Eric Berger

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Besançon, Besançon, France

Philippe Cabre

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU de Martinique, Martinique, France

Jean-Philippe Camdessanché

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Shoshannah Kalson-Ray

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, EHESP Rennes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Christian Confavreux

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Lyon, Lyon, France

Gilles Edan

Affiliation Department of Neurology, CHU Rennes, WEst Neuroscience Network of Excellence (WENNE), Rennes, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL. Performed the experiments: EL SKR. Analyzed the data: EL SV MD GE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL SV MD MC BB JS HZ GD CLF TM PC JP EB PC JPC CC GE. Wrote the paper: EL SV MD MC BB JS HZ GD CLF TM PC JP EB PC JPC SKR GE. Revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: EL SV MD MC BB JS HZ GD CLF TM PC JP EB PC JPC SKR GE. Final approval of the version to be published: EL SV MD MC BB JS HZ GD CLF TM PC JP EB PC JPC SKR GE. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved: EL SV MD MC BB JS HZ GD CLF TM PC JP EB PC JPC SKR GE.