About the Authors

Jonatan Tuncel

jonatan.tuncel@ki.se (JT); rikard.holmdahl@ki.se (RH)

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sabrina Haag

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anthony C. Y. Yau

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ulrika Norin

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Amelie Baud

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Erik Lönnblom

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Klio Maratou

Affiliation Physiological Genomics and Medicine Group, Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

A. Jimmy Ytterberg

Affiliations Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Medical Proteomics, Department of Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden

Diana Ekman

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Soley Thordardottir

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Martina Johannesson

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Alan Gillett

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Neuroimmunology Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

EURATRANS Consortium

Membership of the EURATRANS Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Pernilla Stridh

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Neuroimmunology Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Maja Jagodic

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Neuroimmunology Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Tomas Olsson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Neuroimmunology Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Alberto Fernández-Teruel

Affiliation Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Roman A. Zubarev

Affiliation Medical Proteomics, Department of Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden

Richard Mott

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Timothy J. Aitman

Affiliation Physiological Genomics and Medicine Group, Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Flint

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rikard Holmdahl

jonatan.tuncel@ki.se (JT); rikard.holmdahl@ki.se (RH)

Affiliation Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT RH. Performed the experiments: JT SH ACYY UN AB EL KM ST AJY MJo. Analyzed the data: JT SH AB DE KM AJY AG MJa PS TO AFT RAZ TJA RM JF RH. Wrote the paper: JT SH.