Affiliation: | 1. NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo and Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway;2. Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany These authors contributed equally.;3. Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and, Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;4. Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;5. Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;6. Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;7. Service de Neurologie, CRMR Atrophie Multisystématisée, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Inserm, UMR1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Bordeaux University, ISPED, Bordeaux, France;8. Service de Neurologie, CRMR Atrophie Multisystématisée, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France;9. Centre de Reference Maladie Rare Atrophie MultiSystématisée, Centre d'Investigation, Clinique CIC 1436, Services de Pharmacologie Clinique et Neurosciences, NeuroToul COEN Center, Toulouse, France Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Toulouse, 3, INSERM, Toulouse, France;10. Neurology Department, French Reference Centre for MSA, University Hospital of Toulouse and INSERM U 1048, Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Toulouse, France;11. Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany First Medical Department, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany;12. Institute of Epidemiology and Biobank PopGen, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany;13. Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Munich, Germany Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology), Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Munich, Germany;14. Department of Neurology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany;15. Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany;16. Institute for Community Medicine, Study of Health in Pomerania/KEF, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany;17. Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;18. Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;19. Full list of the European Multiple System Atrophy Study Group members is available in the Supplementary Table.;20. Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany;21. Rita Lila Weston Institute, University College London, London, UK;22. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |