About the Authors
- Sebastian Memczak
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Memczak, Panagiotis Papavasileiou
Affiliation Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert Rössle Straße 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany
- Panagiotis Papavasileiou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Memczak, Panagiotis Papavasileiou
Affiliation Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert Rössle Straße 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany
- Oliver Peters
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, D-12203 Berlin, Germany
- Nikolaus Rajewsky
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* E-mail: rajewsky@mdc-berlin.de
Affiliation Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert Rössle Straße 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors NR, SM, and PP filed a patent (patent EP15187446) covering the use of blood circular RNAs as biomarkers in neurological diseases. This did not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM PP NR. Performed the experiments: SM. Analyzed the data: PP SM NR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OP. Wrote the paper: SM PP NR.