About the Authors

Suna Lahut

Contributed equally to this work with: Suna Lahut, Özgür Ömür

Affiliation Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey

Özgür Ömür

Contributed equally to this work with: Suna Lahut, Özgür Ömür

Affiliation Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey

Özgün Uyan

Affiliation Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey

Zeynep Sena Ağım

Affiliation Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey

Aslihan Özoğuz

Affiliation Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey

Yeşim Parman

Affiliation Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical School, Neurology Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Feza Deymeer

Affiliation Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical School, Neurology Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Piraye Oflazer

Affiliation Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical School, Neurology Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Filiz Koç

Affiliation Çukurova University, Medical School, Neurology Department, Adana, Turkey

Hilmi Özçelik

Affiliation University of Toronto, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Georg Auburger

Affiliation Goethe University, Experimental Neurology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

A. Nazlı Başak

basak@boun.edu.tr

Affiliation Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL OO HO GA ANB. Performed the experiments: SL OO OU ZSA. Analyzed the data: SL OO OU ZSA HO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO YP FD PO FK. Wrote the paper: SL OO AO HO GA ANB.