A high-density genome-wide association screen of sporadic ALS in US veterans.

Following reports of an increased incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in U.S. veterans, we have conducted a high-density genome-wide association study (GWAS) of ALS outcome and survival time in a sample of U.S. veterans. We tested ∼1.3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for...

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Main Authors: Lydia Coulter Kwee, Yutao Liu, Carol Haynes, Jason R Gibson, Annjanette Stone, Steven A Schichman, Freya Kamel, Lorene M Nelson, Barbara Topol, Stephen K Van den Eeden, Caroline M Tanner, Merit E Cudkowicz, Daniela L Grasso, Robert Lawson, Sumitra Muralidhar, Eugene Z Oddone, Silke Schmidt, Michael A Hauser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22470424/?tool=EBI