About the Authors
- Madhav Thambisetty
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* E-mail: thambisettym@mail.nih.gov
Affiliation Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Andrew Simmons
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- Abdul Hye
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- James Campbell
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Affiliation Proteome Sciences plc, Coveham House, Cobham, United Kingdom
- Eric Westman
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- Yi Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Radiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lars-Olof Wahlund
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Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Section of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Anna Kinsey
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- Mirsada Causevic
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- Richard Killick
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- Iwona Kloszewska
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Affiliation Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotic Disorders, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
- Patrizia Mecocci
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Affiliation Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Hilkka Soininen
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Eastern Finland and University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Magda Tsolaki
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Bruno Vellas
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Affiliation Department of Internal and Geriatrics Medicine, Hôpitaux de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- Christian Spenger
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Radiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Simon Lovestone
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Affiliation Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- for the AddNeuroMed consortium
Competing Interests
As detailed below, intellectual property has been registered on the use of plasma proteins for use as biomarkers for AD by King's College London and Proteome Sciences, with Drs. Lovestone, Campbell, and Thambisetty named as inventors. Dr. Campbell was a full-time employee of Proteome Sciences, London, U.K., at the time of his contribution to the work described in this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Patent Title Methods and Compositions Relating to Alzheimer's Disease Subject Covers utility of around 30 proteins, specifically listing 16 in the Dependent claims for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease Filing Proteome Sciences with King's Business UK Priority GB0421639.6 dated 29/09/2004 PCT Application PCT/GB2005/003756 dated 29/09/2005 Application in Europe, Japan, US, Australia, and Canada, dated 15/03/2007 to 16/10/2007.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: Madhav Thambisetty AS SL. Performed the experiments: Madhav Thambisetty AS AH AK MC RK. Analyzed the data: AS Madhav Thambisetty EW JC YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L-OW IK PM HS Magda Tsolaki BV CS SL. Wrote the paper: Madhav Thambisetty AS SL.