About the Authors
- Richard S. Finkel
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* E-mail: finkel@email.chop.edu
Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Thomas O. Crawford
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Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Kathryn J. Swoboda
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Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Petra Kaufmann
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Peter Juhasz
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Affiliation BG Medicine, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Xiaohong Li
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Affiliation BG Medicine, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yu Guo
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Affiliation BG Medicine, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Rebecca H. Li
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Affiliation New England Research Institutes, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Felicia Trachtenberg
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Affiliation New England Research Institutes, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Suzanne J. Forrest
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Affiliation Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America
- Dione T. Kobayashi
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Affiliation Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America
- Karen S. Chen
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Affiliation Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America
- Cynthia L. Joyce
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Affiliation Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America
- Thomas Plasterer
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Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- on behalf of the Pilot Study of Biomarkers for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (BforSMA) Trial Group
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¶Members of the BforSMA Trial Group are listed in List S1
Competing Interests
See below for the full list of competing interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RSF TOC KJS PK YG SJF KSC CLJ. Performed the experiments: RSF TOC KJS PK PJ RHL. Analyzed the data: RSF TOC KJS PK PJ XL RHL FT SJF KSC CLJ TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJ TP. Wrote the paper: RSF TOC KJS PJ XL YG SJF DTK KSC CLJ TP. Completed statistical analysis: FT XL.