About the Authors

Rea Lumi

Contributed equally to this work with: Rea Lumi, Susanne Petri

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover University Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Susanne Petri

Contributed equally to this work with: Rea Lumi, Susanne Petri

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover University Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Justyna Siwy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hannover, Germany

Agnieszka Latosinska

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hannover, Germany

Julia Raad

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hannover, Germany

Petra Zürbig

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Skripuletz

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover University Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Harald Mischak

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hannover, Germany

Joachim Beige

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Joachim.Beige@kfh.de

Affiliations Kuratorium for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany, Hospital Sankt Georg gGmbH, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

S. Petri received honoraria as speaker/consultant from Biogen GmbH, Roche, Novartis, Teva, Cytokinetics Inc., Desitin, Italfarmaco, Ferrer, Amylyx, and Zambon; and grants from DGM e.V, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, EU Joint Program for Neurodegenerative Disease Research. J. Beige received funding from GSK and German Federal Ministries of Research and Health. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.