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TUBA4A gene analysis in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: identification of novel mutations

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank all the Italian ALS patients participating in the study and their caregivers for support.

This work was partially supported by AriSLA (project NOVALS 2012 to N.T., V.S., C.G., V.P., C.T., B.C., J.L.; project RepeatALS to S.D., L.C., L.M.), ASLA onlus (to G.S.), the Eurobiobank and Telethon Network of Genetic Biobanks (GTB12001D to G.S.) and co-financed with the support of “5 × 1000”—Healthcare Research of the Ministry of Health to C.C., C.G., C.T., V.P., B.C., N.T. J.L and V.S.

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Correspondence to Cinzia Gellera or Vincenzo Silani.

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V. Pensato and C. Tiloca contributed equally to this work.

C. Gellera and V. Silani are co-senior authors.

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Pensato, V., Tiloca, C., Corrado, L. et al. TUBA4A gene analysis in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: identification of novel mutations. J Neurol 262, 1376–1378 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-015-7739-y

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