About the Authors

Edward Pokrishevsky

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Leslie I. Grad

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Masoud Yousefi

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jing Wang

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Ian R. Mackenzie

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Neil R. Cashman

neil.cashman@vch.ca

Affiliation Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts. NRC is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Amorfix Life Sciences, a Canadian biotechnology company assigned intellectual property associated with the antibodies directed against disease-specific epitopes used in this study. 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: EP NRC. Performed the experiments: EP LG IRM. Analyzed the data: EP LG MY IRM NRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EP LG MY JW IRM NRC. Wrote the paper: EP LG MY IRM NRC.