About the Authors

Anne Grünewald

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Grünewald, Lisa Voges

Affiliations Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Neurogenetics, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lisa Voges

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Grünewald, Lisa Voges

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Aleksandar Rakovic

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Meike Kasten

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Himesha Vandebona

Affiliation Department of Neurogenetics, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Claudia Hemmelmann

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Katja Lohmann

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Slobodanka Orolicki

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Alfredo Ramirez

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Anthony H. V. Schapira

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter P. Pramstaller

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy, Bolzano, Italy

Carolyn M. Sue

Affiliation Department of Neurogenetics, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Christine Klein

christine.klein@neuro.uni-luebeck.de

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Competing Interests

Dr. Schapira is a board member of the Royal Free Hospital trust, served as a consultant for BI, GSK, Teva-Lundbeck, Orion-Novartis and EMD Serono, and received research support from the Kattan Trust. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG AR CMS. Performed the experiments: AG LV AR HV. Analyzed the data: AG LV MK CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PPP CMS CK. Wrote the paper: AG LV KL SO AR AHVS CMS CK. Head of the Section: CK.