Loos, Julia
Pfeuffer, Steffen
Pape, Katrin
Ruck, Tobias
Luessi, Felix
Spreer, Annette
Zipp, Frauke
Meuth, Sven G.
Bittner, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2179-3655
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (CRC-TR-128, CRC-TR-128, CRC-TR-128)
Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung (myLab17)
Article History
Received: 18 December 2019
Revised: 6 February 2020
Accepted: 8 February 2020
First Online: 13 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JL reports no conflicts of interest. SP has received travel reimbursements or honoraria for lecturing from Sanofi Genzyme, Merck Serono, Biogen and Mylan and receives financial research support from DIAMED. AS has received speaker honoraria from Virion-Serion and labopart. FL received consultancy fees from Roche and support with travel cost from Teva Pharma. SGM receives honoraria for lecturing, and travel expenses for attending meetings from Almirall, Amicus Therapeutics Germany, Bayer Health Care, Biogen, Celgene, Diamed, Genzyme, MedDay Pharmaceuticals, Merck Serono, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, ONO Pharma, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Chugai Pharma, QuintilesIMS and Teva. His research is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service, Hertie Foundation, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Studies (IZKF) Muenster, German Foundation Neurology and Almirall, Amicus Therapeutics Germany, Biogen, Diamed, Fresenius Medical Care, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, ONO Pharma, Roche, and Teva. FZ has received research support and/or honoraria from Genzyme, Merck Serono, Roche, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Celgene, ONO and Octapharma. SB has received honoraria and compensation for travel from Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi-Genzyme and Roche. TR received travel expenses and financial research support from Genzyme and Novartis and received honoraria for lecturing from Roche, Merck, Genzyme, Biogen, and Teva. KP reports no conflicts of interest.
: This study was approved by the local ethical committees and performed according to the Helsinki Declaration.
: All patients provided written informed consent.