About the Authors

Martin S. Weber

zamvil@ucsf.neuroimmunol.org (SSZ); m.weber@lrz.tu-muenchen.de (MSW)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mahdia Benkhoucha

Affiliations Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Klaus Lehmann-Horn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Deetje Hertzenberg

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Johann Sellner

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Marie-Laure Santiago-Raber

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Michel Chofflon

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Bernhard Hemmer

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Scott S. Zamvil

Contributed equally to this work with: Scott S. Zamvil, Patrice H. Lalive

zamvil@ucsf.neuroimmunol.org (SSZ); m.weber@lrz.tu-muenchen.de (MSW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Patrice H. Lalive

Contributed equally to this work with: Scott S. Zamvil, Patrice H. Lalive

Affiliations Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSW SSZ PHL. Performed the experiments: MSW MB DH. Analyzed the data: KL-H JS M-LS-R MC BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH. Wrote the paper: MSW SSZ PHL.