About the Authors

Ralf Dressel

rdresse@gwdg.de

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Jan Schindehütte

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Tanja Kuhlmann

Affiliations Department of Neuropathology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Leslie Elsner

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Peter Novota

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Paul Christian Baier

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Arne Schillert

Affiliations Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Heike Bickeböller

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Thomas Herrmann

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Claudia Trenkwalder

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Paracelsus-Elena Klinik, Kassel, Germany

Walter Paulus

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Ahmed Mansouri

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM WP RD TH JS TK CT. Performed the experiments: RD LE JS TK PN PCB. Analyzed the data: AM HB RD JS TK AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH. Wrote the paper: RD.