About the Authors
- Katrina Gwinn
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*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
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Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America
- Hiroshi Mitsumoto
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Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Kate Bednarz
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Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Robert H. Brown Jr.
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Merit Cudkowicz
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Paul H. Gordon
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Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- John Hardy
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Affiliation National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Edward J. Kasarskis
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Affiliation University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
- Petra Kaufmann
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Affiliation Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Robert Miller
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Affiliation California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eric Sorenson
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Affiliation Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Rup Tandan
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Affiliation University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
- Bryan J. Traynor
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Affiliation National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Josefina Nash
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Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America
- Alex Sherman
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Matthew D. Mailman
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Affiliation National Center for Bioinformatics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- James Ostell
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Affiliation National Center for Bioinformatics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lucie Bruijn
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Affiliation The ALS Association, Calabasas Hills, California, United States of America
- Valerie Cwik
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Affiliation Muscular Dystrophy Association, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Stephen S. Rich
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Affiliation Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Andrew Singleton
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Affiliation National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Larry Refolo
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Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Jaime Andrews
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Affiliation Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America
- Ran Zhang
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Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Robin Conwit
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Affiliation National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Margaret A. Keller
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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.