About the Authors

Walter Maetzler

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Maetzler, Youyong Tian, Stephanie Maria Baur

walter.maetzler@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Youyong Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Maetzler, Youyong Tian, Stephanie Maria Baur

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany, Department of Neurology, Nanjing First Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Stephanie Maria Baur

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Maetzler, Youyong Tian, Stephanie Maria Baur

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Tina Gauger

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Bartholomäus Odoj

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Benjamin Schmid

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Claudia Schulte

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Christian Deuschle

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Susanna Heck

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Anja Apel

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Arthur Melms

Affiliation Center of Neurology, General Neurology Department, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Thomas Gasser

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Daniela Berg

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM T. Gasser DB. Performed the experiments: YT SMB T. Gauger BO BS CS CD SH. Analyzed the data: WM AA AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM AM T. Gasser DB. Wrote the paper: WM AA DB.