About the Authors

Prejaas Tewarie

Affiliation MS Centre Amsterdam, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lisanne Balk

Affiliation MS Centre Amsterdam, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Fiona Costello

Affiliation University of Calgary, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Surgery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ari Green

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

Roland Martin

Current address: Department of Neuroimmunology and Clinical Multiple Sclerosis Research, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute for Neuroimmunology and Clinical Multiple Sclerosis Research (Inims), University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sven Schippling

Current address: Department of Neuroimmunology and Clinical Multiple Sclerosis Research, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute for Neuroimmunology and Clinical Multiple Sclerosis Research (Inims), University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Axel Petzold

a.petzold@vumc.nl

Affiliation UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT LB AP. Performed the experiments: PT LB AP. Analyzed the data: LB AP FC SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT LB AP FC AG RM SS. Wrote the paper: PT LB AP SS FC.