About the Authors
- Alessandra Zanon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Zanon, Aleksandar Rakovic, Francisco S. Domingues, Irene Pichler
Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Aleksandar Rakovic
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Zanon, Aleksandar Rakovic, Francisco S. Domingues, Irene Pichler
Affiliation Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Hagen Blankenburg
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Nadezhda T. Doncheva
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Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Christine Schwienbacher
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Alice Serafin
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Adrian Alexa
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Current address: Illumina, Cambridge Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Christian X. Weichenberger
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Mario Albrecht
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Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany, Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biometrics and Medical Informatics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Christine Klein
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Affiliation Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Andrew A. Hicks
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Peter P. Pramstaller
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Affiliations Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Francisco S. Domingues
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Zanon, Aleksandar Rakovic, Francisco S. Domingues, Irene Pichler
* E-mail: irene.pichler@eurac.edu (IP); francisco.domingues@eurac.edu (FSD)
Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Irene Pichler
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Zanon, Aleksandar Rakovic, Francisco S. Domingues, Irene Pichler
* E-mail: irene.pichler@eurac.edu (IP); francisco.domingues@eurac.edu (FSD)
Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Peter P. Pramstaller received honoraria for serving on scientific boards and speaking from Novartis, Boehringer, GlaxoSmithKline, Lundbeck and UCB. Christine Klein is a member of the editorial board of “Neurology” and has served as editor of the “Continuum Issue Neurogenetics 2008” and as faculty at the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Neurology since 2004. She is a consultant to Centogene and received honoraria for speaking from Boehringer Ingelheim and Orion Pharma. Dr. Klein is the recipient of a career development award from the Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation. She is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Possehl Foundation and received institutional support from the University of Luebeck for genetics research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Also, the current affiliation of Adrian Alexa, one of the co-authors of the paper, to Illumina, Cambridge Ltd, UK (stated on the first page of the manuscript) does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CK PPP AAH IP FSD. Performed the experiments: AZ AS IP AR CS. Analyzed the data: HB NTD CXW FSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA MA. Wrote the paper: IP AZ FSD.