About the Authors

Fuencisla Matesanz

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuencisla Matesanz, Antonio González-Pérez, Miguel Lucas, Agustín Ruiz, Guillermo Izquierdo

Affiliation Unidad de Esclerosis Múltiple, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain

Antonio González-Pérez

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuencisla Matesanz, Antonio González-Pérez, Miguel Lucas, Agustín Ruiz, Guillermo Izquierdo

Affiliation Department of Structural Genomics, Neocodex, Sevilla, Spain

Miguel Lucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuencisla Matesanz, Antonio González-Pérez, Miguel Lucas, Agustín Ruiz, Guillermo Izquierdo

Affiliation Servicio de Biología Molecular, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain

Serena Sanna

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Monserrato, Italy

Javier Gayán

Affiliation Department of Structural Genomics, Neocodex, Sevilla, Spain

Elena Urcelay

Affiliation Immunology Department, H. Clínico S. Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria S. Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain

Ilenia Zara

Affiliation Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), AGCT, Parco tecnologico della Sardegna, Pula, Italy

Maristella Pitzalis

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

María L. Cavanillas

Affiliation Immunology Department, H. Clínico S. Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria S. Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain

Rafael Arroyo

Affiliation Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Neurology Department, H. Clínico S. Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria S. Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain

Magdalena Zoledziewska

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Marisa Marrosu

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Cardiovascolari, Centro Sclerosi Multipla, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Oscar Fernández

Affiliation Servicio de Neurología, Instituto de Neurociencias Clínicas, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain

Laura Leyva

Affiliation Servicio de Neurología, Instituto de Neurociencias Clínicas, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain

Antonio Alcina

Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López Neyra”, CSIC, Granada, Spain

Maria Fedetz

Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López Neyra”, CSIC, Granada, Spain

Concha Moreno-Rey

Affiliation Department of Structural Genomics, Neocodex, Sevilla, Spain

Juan Velasco

Affiliation Department of Structural Genomics, Neocodex, Sevilla, Spain

Luis M. Real

Affiliation Department of Structural Genomics, Neocodex, Sevilla, Spain

Juan Luis Ruiz-Peña

Affiliation Unidad de Esclerosis Múltiple, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain

Francesco Cucca

Affiliations Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Monserrato, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Agustín Ruiz

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuencisla Matesanz, Antonio González-Pérez, Miguel Lucas, Agustín Ruiz, Guillermo Izquierdo

aruiz@neocodex.es

Affiliation Department of Structural Genomics, Neocodex, Sevilla, Spain

Guillermo Izquierdo

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuencisla Matesanz, Antonio González-Pérez, Miguel Lucas, Agustín Ruiz, Guillermo Izquierdo

Affiliation Unidad de Esclerosis Múltiple, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain

Competing Interests

As a declaration of competing financial interest, several authors in this study (Dr. Gonzalez-Perez, Dr. Gayán, Dr. Moreno-Rey, Dr. Velasco, Dr. Real, and Dr. Ruiz) are employees and/or shareholders in Neocodex. The authors have also used publicly available data from a study that received funding from GSK. 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: FC AR GI. Performed the experiments: FM EU IZ MP MLC RA MZ MM OF LL AA MF CMR JV LMR JLRP. Analyzed the data: FM AGP ML SS JG AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS EU JLRP FC AR GI. Wrote the paper: FM AGP ML SS JG EU IZ MP MZ MM AA FC AR GI.