About the Authors

Gerry Z. M. Ma

Affiliations Multiple Sclerosis Division, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jim Stankovich

Affiliation Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The Australia and New Zealand Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (ANZgene)

Membership of the ANZgene Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Trevor J. Kilpatrick

Affiliations Multiple Sclerosis Division, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Michele D. Binder

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele D. Binder, Judith Field

Affiliations Multiple Sclerosis Division, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Judith Field

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele D. Binder, Judith Field

judith.field@florey.edu.au

Affiliations Multiple Sclerosis Division, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: This work was funded by Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd. 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: GZMM JS TJK MDB JF. Performed the experiments: GZMM JF. Analyzed the data: GZMM JS JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZMM JS TJK MDB JF. Wrote the paper: GZMM JS TJK MDB JF.