About the Authors

Vasileios Siokas

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Efthimios Dardiotis

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Evangelia E. Tsironi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Georgios Tsivgoulis

Affiliations Second Department of Neurology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, Greece, International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Dimitrios Rikos

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Maria Sokratous

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Stylianos Koutsias

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessalia Medical School, Larissa, Greece

Konstantinos Paterakis

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Georgia Deretzi

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou

gmhadji@med.uth.gr

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VS ED GMH. Data curation: VS ED DR GMH. Formal analysis: VS ED DR GMH. Investigation: VS ED GMH. Methodology: VS ED GT GMH. Project administration: VS ED GMH. Resources: VS ED EET GT GD GMH. Software: VS ED DR KP GMH. Supervision: VS ED GMH. Validation: VS ED EET GT GD GMH. Visualization: VS ED DR MS SK KP GMH. Writing – original draft: VS ED EET GT GMH. Writing – review & editing: VS ED EET GT DR MS SK KP GD GMH.