Cartilage defect location and stiffness predispose the tibiofemoral joint to aberrant loading conditions during stance phase of gait

• Lianne Zevenbergen ,

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

  * E-mail: lianne.zevenbergen@kuleuven.be

  Affiliation Department of Movement Sciences, Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8891-7571

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• Colin R. Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Sam Van Rossom,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Movement Sciences, Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Darryl G. Thelen,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Nele Famaey,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanics Section, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Jos Vander Sloten,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanics Section, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Ilse Jonkers

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

  Affiliation Department of Movement Sciences, Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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