About the Authors

Franc Llorens

Contributed equally to this work with: Franc Llorens, Katrin Thüne

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Franc.llorens@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany, Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain

Katrin Thüne

Contributed equally to this work with: Franc Llorens, Katrin Thüne

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

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Translational Studies and Biomarkers, Göttingen, Germany

Eulàlia Martí

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Eirini Kanata

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Prion Diseases Research Group, School of Health Sciences, Department Of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Dimitra Dafou

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Daniela Díaz-Lucena

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain

Ana Vivancos

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain

Orr Shomroni

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Computational Systems Biology, Göttingen, Germany

Saima Zafar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Translational Studies and Biomarkers, Göttingen, Germany

Matthias Schmitz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Translational Studies and Biomarkers, Göttingen, Germany

Uwe Michel

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany

Natalia Fernández-Borges

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), Madrid, Spain

Olivier Andréoletti

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique/Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Toulouse, France

José Antonio del Río

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain, Molecular and Cellular Neurobiotechnology, Catalonian Institute for Bioengineering (IBEC), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Cell Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Juana Díez

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Virology group, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Andre Fischer

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Epigenetics and Systems Medicine in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Göttingen, Germany

Stefan Bonn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Computational Systems Biology, Göttingen, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tuebingen, Germany, Center for Molecular Neurobiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Theodoros Sklaviadis

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Prion Diseases Research Group, School of Health Sciences, Department Of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Juan Maria Torres

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), Madrid, Spain

Isidre Ferrer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ IF and IZ share senior authorship of this work.

Affiliations Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain, Senior consultant, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Inga Zerr

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ IF and IZ share senior authorship of this work.

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Translational Studies and Biomarkers, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist."