Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: an emerging era of collaborative gene discovery.

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Published in PLoS One on December 05, 2007

Authors

Katrina Gwinn1, Roderick A Corriveau, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Kate Bednarz, Robert H Brown, Merit Cudkowicz, Paul H Gordon, John Hardy, Edward J Kasarskis, Petra Kaufmann, Robert Miller, Eric Sorenson, Rup Tandan, Bryan J Traynor, Josefina Nash, Alex Sherman, Matthew D Mailman, James Ostell, Lucie Bruijn, Valerie Cwik, Stephen S Rich, Andrew Singleton, Larry Refolo, Jaime Andrews, Ran Zhang, Robin Conwit, Margaret A Keller, ALS Research Group

Author Affiliations

1: National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America. GwinnK@ninds.nih.gov

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