About the Authors

Sahl Khalid Bedri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sahl.bedri@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ola B. Nilsson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, TCER AB, c/o Advice Företagsassistans i Stockholm AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Katharina Fink

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Månberg

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affinity Proteomics, SciLifeLab, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Carl Hamsten

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immunology and Allergy unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Burcu Ayoglu

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affinity Proteomics, SciLifeLab, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Ali Manouchehrinia

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Peter Nilsson

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affinity Proteomics, SciLifeLab, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Tomas Olsson

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Hillert

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Hans Grönlund

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Glaser

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Centrum for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska, Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

Sahl Khalid Bedri, Anna Månberg, Carl Hamsten, Burcu Ayoglu, Ali Manouchehrinia, Peter Nilsson and Hans Grönlund have declared that no competing interests exist. Ola B. Nilsson is employed by TCER AB. Katharina Fink has received an unrestricted research grant from Biogen and travel compensations for holding lectures by Biogen, Teva, Roche and Novartis. Tomas Olsson received compensation for serving on scientific advisory boards or conducting lectures for Biogen and Genzyme, as well as unrestricted research grants from Biogen, Novartis, Genzyme, Almirall, and AstraZeneca. Jan Hillert received honoraria for serving on advisory boards for Biogen and Novartis and speaker’s fees from Biogen, Merck Serono, Bayer Schering, Teva and Sanofi Genzyme. He has served as P.I. for projects sponsored by, or received unrestricted research support from, Biogen, Sanofi Genzyme, Merck Serono, TEVA, Novartis and Bayer Schering. Anna Glaser has received unrestricted research support from Biogen. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.