About the Authors
- Casper Jansen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Casper Jansen, Piero Parchi
* E-mail: c.jansen@umcutrecht.nl
Affiliation Dutch Surveillance Centre for Prion Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Piero Parchi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Casper Jansen, Piero Parchi
Affiliation Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche and Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Sabina Capellari
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Affiliation Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche and Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Carla A. Ibrahim-Verbaas
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Affiliations Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Dutch National Prion Disease Registry, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Maaike Schuur
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Rosaria Strammiello
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Affiliation Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche and Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Patrizia Corrado
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Affiliation Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche and Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Matthew T. Bishop
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Affiliation National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Willem A. van Gool
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Marcel M. Verbeek
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Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Departments of Neurology and Laboratory Medicine, Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behavior, Alzheimer Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Frank Baas
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Affiliations Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Genome Analysis, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Wesley van Saane
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Affiliation Dutch Surveillance Centre for Prion Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Wim G. M. Spliet
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Affiliation Dutch Surveillance Centre for Prion Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Gerard H. Jansen
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Affiliation Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, Prion Diseases Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Cornelia M. van Duijn
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Affiliation Dutch National Prion Disease Registry, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Annemieke J. M. Rozemuller
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Affiliations Dutch Surveillance Centre for Prion Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Netherlands Brain Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ PP CvD AR. Performed the experiments: CJ SC MS RS PC MB WS GJ. Analyzed the data: CJ PP SC CIV MB WvS WG MV FB CvD AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WvS. Wrote the paper: CJ PP CIV CvD AR.