Temporal trends and geographic clusters of mortality from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Japan, 1995-2004.

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Published in J Neurol Sci on November 15, 2010

Authors

Yuriko Doi1, Testuji Yokoyama, Toshiro Tango, Kunihiko Takahashi, Kenichi Fujimoto, Imaharu Nakano

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Education and Training Technology, National Institute of Public Health, 2-3-6 Minami, Wako, Saitama 351-0197, Japan. yuriko@niph.go.jp

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