About the Authors

Katrina Gwinn

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: GwinnK@ninds.nih.gov

Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Roderick A. Corriveau

Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Hiroshi Mitsumoto

Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kate Bednarz

Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert H. Brown Jr.

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Merit Cudkowicz

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul H. Gordon

Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

John Hardy

Affiliation National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Edward J. Kasarskis

Affiliation University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Petra Kaufmann

Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert Miller

Affiliation California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eric Sorenson

Affiliation Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Rup Tandan

Affiliation University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Bryan J. Traynor

Affiliation National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Josefina Nash

Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Alex Sherman

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew D. Mailman

Affiliation National Center for Bioinformatics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

James Ostell

Affiliation National Center for Bioinformatics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lucie Bruijn

Affiliation The ALS Association, Calabasas Hills, California, United States of America

Valerie Cwik

Affiliation Muscular Dystrophy Association, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Stephen S. Rich

Affiliation Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Andrew Singleton

Affiliation National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Larry Refolo

Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jaime Andrews

Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Ran Zhang

Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robin Conwit

Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Margaret A. Keller

Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

for The ALS Research Group

Competing Interests

Many of the authors are editors, or reviewers, for various journals which publish articles in the field of gene discovery, repositories; specifically, KAG is a section editor of Plos ONE. Drs. Gwinn, Refolo, and Conwit manage grants and contracts for funding research in ALS including those of other authors, and others who did not participate in this project. Drs. Gwinn, Zhang, Refolo, Singleton, Traynor, and Conwit are US Government employees at the time of this writing.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JO AS KG JH RC HM MM LB LR RC. Performed the experiments: RB MC JH RC KB PG EK PK RM BT JA. Analyzed the data: JO MK AS KG JH RC PG EK BT JN AS MM SR RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JO RB AS KG MC JH RC HM KB PG PK RM ES RT BT JN AS MM LB VC JA. Wrote the paper: JO RB MK AS KG MC JH RC HM KB PG EK PK RM ES RT BT JN AS MM LB VC SR LR JA RZ RC.