Gratten, Jacob
Zhao, Qiongyi
Benyamin, Beben
Garton, Fleur
He, Ji
Leo, Paul J.
Mangelsdorf, Marie
Anderson, Lisa
Zhang, Zong-Hong
Chen, Lu
Chen, Xiang-Ding
Cremin, Katie
Deng, Hong-Weng
Edson, Janette
Han, Ying-Ying
Harris, Jessica
Henders, Anjali K.
Jin, Zi-Bing
Li, Zhongshan
Lin, Yong
Liu, Xiaolu
Marshall, Mhairi
Mowry, Bryan J.
Ran, Shu
Reutens, David C.
Song, Sharon
Tan, Li-Jun
Tang, Lu
Wallace, Robyn H.
Wheeler, Lawrie
Wu, Jinyu
Yang, Jian
Xu, Huji
Visscher, Peter M.
Bartlett, Perry F.
Brown, Matthew A.
Wray, Naomi R.
Fan, Dongsheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian Research Council (Linkage Grant)
Peter Goodenough Foundation
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81601105, 81522014)
National Health and Medical Research Council (1127440, 1103418)
Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia (Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellowships, Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellowship)
Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation
Article History
Received: 2 August 2017
Accepted: 30 October 2017
First Online: 17 November 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: ALS patients were from the ALS specialty clinic at the Department of Neurology of the Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China. Control samples were from individuals who attended the same hospital, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Hunan Normal University, the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Wenzhou Medical University. All cases and controls provided written informed consent to participate in the research. Sample collections were approved by the human research ethics committees of the Peking University Third Hospital, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Wenzhou Medical University Eye Hospital (KYK-2015-18) and by the Hunan University Ethics Committee in their Department of Research Administration. Analyses conducted at the University of Queensland were approved by the University human research ethics committee (Approval no. 2011001173). The study conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
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