About the Authors

Bruce A. C. Cree

bruce.cree@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

John D. Rioux

Affiliation Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Jacob L. McCauley

Affiliation Dr. John T. MacDonald Foundation, Department of Human Genetics, Miami University School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Pierre-Antoine F. D. Gourraud

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Philippe Goyette

Affiliation Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Joseph McElroy

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Philip De Jager

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam Santaniello

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Timothy J. Vyse

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter K. Gregersen

Affiliation Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Daniel Mirel

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David A. Hafler

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jonathan L. Haines

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Margaret A. Pericak-Vance

Affiliation Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miami University School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Alastair Compston

Affiliation Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen J. Sawcer

Affiliation Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jorge R. Oksenberg

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephen L. Hauser

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

IMAGEN

Membership of the International MHC and Autoimmunity Genetics Network (IMAGEN) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

IMSGC

Membership of the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BACC JDR JLM PG PLDJ TJV PG IMAGEN IMSGC DBM DAH JLH MAPV AC SS JRO SLH. Performed the experiments: BACC JDR JLM PG IMAGEN IMSGC DBM JRO SLH. Analyzed the data: BACC JDR JLM PAG JPM AS SS JRO SLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BACC JDR JLM PAG PG JPM PLDJ AS TJV PG IMAGEN IMSGC DBM DAH JLH MAPV AC SS JRO SLH. Wrote the paper: BACC JDR JLM PAG PG JPM PLDJ AS TJV PG DBM DAH JLH MAPV AC SS JRO SLH.