About the Authors
- Carol Man Gao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Man Gao, Alice Y. Yam
Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Alice Y. Yam
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Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Man Gao, Alice Y. Yam
Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Xuemei Wang
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Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Erika Magdangal
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Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Cleo Salisbury
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Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- David Peretz
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Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Ronald N. Zuckermann
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Current address: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Foundry, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Michael D. Connolly
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Current address: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Foundry, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Oskar Hansson
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Affiliation Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Lennart Minthon
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Affiliation Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Henrik Zetterberg
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Affiliation Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
- Kaj Blennow
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Affiliation Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
- Joseph P. Fedynyshyn
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* E-mail: joseph.fedynyshyn@novartis.com
Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Sophie Allauzen
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Affiliation Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Several of the authors are employed by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics and thus may have a conflict of interest. In addition, the submitted work is included in a pending patent application on amyloid-beta aggregates as biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (patent #61/265,340, submitted by Novartis AG on Nov 30, 2009). 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: CMG AYY SA JPF DP. Performed the experiments: CMG EM AYY. Analyzed the data: CMG EM AYY JPF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW CS RNZ MDC OH LM HZ KB. Wrote the paper: AYY.