About the Authors

Sergio E Baranzini

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sebaran@cgl.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Parvin Mousavi

Affiliation School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Jordi Rio

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Stacy J Caillier

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Althea Stillman

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Pablo Villoslada

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, University of Navarra, Spain

Matthew M Wyatt

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Manuel Comabella

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Larry D Greller

Affiliation Biosystemix, Sydenham, Ontario, Canada

Roland Somogyi

Affiliation Biosystemix, Sydenham, Ontario, Canada

Xavier Montalban

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Jorge R Oksenberg

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SB, JR, XM, and JRO conceived and designed the experiments. SB, SJC, and AS performed the experiments. SB, PM, MMW, LDG, and RS analyzed the data. JR, PV, MC, and XM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SB and JRO wrote the paper.