Hor, Jin-Hui
Santosa, Munirah Mohamad
Lim, Valerie Jing Wen
Ho, Beatrice Xuan
Taylor, Amy
Khong, Zi Jian
Ravits, John
Fan, Yong
Liou, Yih-Cherng http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0149-6856
Soh, Boon-Seng http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9134-3081
Ng, Shi-Yan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-2757
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF-NRFF-2018-003)
A*STAR | Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Article History
Received: 31 January 2020
Accepted: 29 October 2020
First Online: 12 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All tissues were collected under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) compliant IRB (Institutional Review Board) supervised consenting process. Patients are provided the option to donate their CNS tissue postmortem to the ALS biorepository and provide consent during life. All consent forms and other legal documentation are handled by clinical research support staff and kept de-identified from the basic research team. Each patient has separate clinical, CNS, and fibroblast identifiers assigned to them in order to maintain patient autonomy and anonymity.