About the Authors
- Carlos Riveros
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Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
- Drew Mellor
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Affiliations Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
- Kaushal S. Gandhi
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Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
- Fiona C. McKay
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Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
- Mathew B. Cox
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Affiliations Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
- Regina Berretta
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Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
- S. Yahya Vaezpour
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Affiliations Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia, Department of Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Mario Inostroza-Ponta
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Affiliations Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia, Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Simon A. Broadley
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Affiliations School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Neurology, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Australia
- Robert N. Heard
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Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
- Stephen Vucic
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Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
- Graeme J. Stewart
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Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
- David W. Williams
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Affiliation John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
- Rodney J. Scott
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Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
- Jeanette Lechner-Scott
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Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
- David R. Booth
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Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
- Pablo Moscato
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* E-mail: Pablo.Moscato@newcastle.edu.au
Affiliations Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, St Lucia, Australia
- for the ANZgene Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium
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¶Membership of The Australia and New Zealand Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (ANZgene) is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GS RJS JLS DB PM. Analyzed the data: CR DM KG RB SYV DB PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB. Wrote the paper: CR DM SYV SB GS PM. Conducted computational experiments: PM CR DM. Editorial review: PM CR SB. Prepared all figures and supplementary material files: CR DM. Collected samples: FCM MBC SB JLS. Designed analysis software: MIP. Phenotyped patients: SB RNH SV DW.