About the Authors
- Yijun Zhao
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Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Brian C. Healy
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Affiliations Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Dalia Rotstein
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Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Charles R. G. Guttmann
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Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Rohit Bakshi
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Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Howard L. Weiner
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Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Carla E. Brodley
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Affiliation College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Tanuja Chitnis
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* E-mail: tchitnis@partners.org
Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
Yijun Zhao has no disclosures. Brian Healy has received grant support from Merck-Serono and Novartis. Dalia Rotstein has no disclosures. Charles Guttmann has no disclosures. Rohit Bakshi has received consulting fees and/or research support from Abbvie, Alkermes, Biogen Idec, Genzyme/Sanofi, Novartis, Teva, and Questcor in the past 12 months. Howard Weiner has served as a consultant for Biogen-Idec, Nasvax, Novartis, Merck Serono, and Teva Neurosciences, and has received grant support from Merck Serono. Dr. Brodley has no disclosures. Dr. Chitnis has served as an advisor for Biogen-Idec, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Teva Neurosciences, and has received grant support from National MS Society, NIH, Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, Merck-Serono and Novartis. The disclosures listed for authors do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: YZ BCH CEB TC. Data curation: BCH TC. Formal analysis: YZ BCH CEB TC. Funding acquisition: HLW CEB TC. Investigation: YZ BCH CEB TC. Methodology: YZ BCH CEB TC. Project administration: TC. Resources: CRGG RB HLW CEB TC. Software: YZ BCH. Supervision: CEB TC. Validation: DR CRGG RB HLW TC. Visualization: YZ. Writing – original draft: YZ TC. Writing – review & editing: BCH DR CRGG RB HLW CEB.