About the Authors

Sefika Ozcelik

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Graham Fraser

Affiliation MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Perrine Castets

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Neuromuscular Research Centre, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Véronique Schaeffer

Affiliation MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Zhiva Skachokova

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Karin Breu

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Florence Clavaguera

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Michael Sinnreich

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Neuromuscular Research Centre, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ludwig Kappos

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Michel Goedert

Affiliation MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Markus Tolnay

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

David Theo Winkler

winklerd@uhbs.ch

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical revision and extension of the drafted manuscript: PC ZS MS LK MG MT. Conceived and designed the experiments: SO GF PC VS MS MG DW. Performed the experiments: SO GF PC VS KB MS DW. Analyzed the data: SO GF PC VS KB MS MG DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC FC MS MG MT. Wrote the paper: DW SO.