About the Authors

Kon-Ping Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kon-Ping Lin, Bing-Wen Soong

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, The Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Bing-Wen Soong

Contributed equally to this work with: Kon-Ping Lin, Bing-Wen Soong

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, The Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Chao Yang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Wen Huang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, The Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Hong Chang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Section of Neurology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

I-Hui Lee

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Antony Antonellis

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics and Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yi-Chung Lee

ycli@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, The Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-CL K-PL B-WS. Performed the experiments: Y-CL K-PL B-WS L-WH. Analyzed the data: Y-CL K-PL B-WS L-WH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-CL K-PL C-CY M-HC I-HL. Wrote the paper: Y-CL K-PL B-WS C-CY L-WH M-HC I-HL AA.