About the Authors

James F. Meschia

meschia.james@mayo.edu.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Andrew Singleton

Affiliation National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael A. Nalls

Affiliation National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen S. Rich

Affiliation Departments of Public Health Sciences and the Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Pankaj Sharma

Affiliation Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit (ICCRU), Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospitals, London, United Kingdom

Luigi Ferrucci

Affiliation National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mar Matarin

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, University College of London Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Dena G. Hernandez

Affiliation National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kerra Pearce

Affiliation University College London Genomics and Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Thomas G. Brott

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Robert D. Brown Jr.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

John Hardy

Affiliation Department of Molecular Neuroscience Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Bradford B. Worrall

Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFM PS MAN SSR AS JH. Performed the experiments: JFM AS MAN KP DH MM. Analyzed the data: MAN SSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFM AS MAN SSR PS LF MM DGH KP TGB RDB JH BBW. Wrote the paper: JFM AS MAN PS SSR MM DGH KP TGB RDB JH BBW.