About the Authors
- Umer Akbar
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* E-mail: umerakbar@yahoo.com
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Ying He
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Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, United States of America
- Yunfeng Dai
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Nawaz Hack
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Irene Malaty
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Nikolaus R. McFarland
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Christopher Hess
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Peter Schmidt
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Affiliation National Parkinson Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Samuel Wu
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Michael S. Okun
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Okun serves as a consultant for the National Parkinson Foundation, and has received research grants from NIH, NPF, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Parkinson Alliance, Smallwood Foundation, the Bachmann-Strauss Foundation, the Tourette Syndrome Association, and the UF Foundation. Dr. Okun has received royalties for publications with Demos, Manson, Amazon, Smashwords, and Cambridge (movement disorders books). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS policy on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: UA NH MSO. Performed the experiments: UA YH YD SW PS MSO. Analyzed the data: UA YH YD NH IM NM CH PS SW MSO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH YD PS SW. Wrote the paper: UA YH YD NH IM NM CH PS SW MSO.