About the Authors

Andrius Kavaliunas

andrius.kavaliunas@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Michael Wiberg

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of analysis and prognosis, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Stockholm, Sweden

Petter Tinghög

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Red Cross University College, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Glaser

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Hanna Gyllensten

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Kristina Alexanderson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Hillert

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

Andrius Kavaliunas has declared that no competing interests exist. Michael Wiberg was funded by an unrestricted research grant from Biogen. Petter Tinghög was funded by an unrestricted research grant from Biogen. Anna Glaser has received unrestricted research support from Biogen. Hanna Gyllensten was funded by an unrestricted research grant from Biogen. Kristina Alexanderson has received unrestricted research grants from Biogen and from the Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Health and Welfare. Jan Hillert received honoraria for serving on advisory boards for Biogen and Novartis and speaker's fees from Biogen, MerckSerono, BayerSchering, Teva and SanofiGenzyme. He has served as P.I. for projects sponsored by, or received unrestricted research support from Biogen, SanofiGenzyme, MerckSerono, TEVA, Novartis, and BayerSchering. His MS research is funded by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Brain Foundation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK MW PT KA JH. Analyzed the data: AK MW PT. Wrote the paper: AK MW PT AG HG KA JH.