Theme 1 Epidemiology and informatics

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The "Union of professional football players in Italy" for data cleaning and verification; Massimiliano Castellani and Vinciguerra Roberto for ALS cases ascertainment; Rizzoli Corriere della Sera for providing access to Almanacchi Panini.

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The study was conducted under a grant from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.

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ALS Association grants SC5181 and 15-IIP-213, Diamond Endowment Project at Dartmouth.

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This project is funded by a grant from the National ALS Registry of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (R01TS000288).

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The study was funded by MTPA and conducted by HVH, who served as a paid consultant for MTPA.

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Project Mine, ALSoD, Strength, EuroMotor, MNDA, JPND

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The ML model described here was created using PRO-ACT. This analysis was funded by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.

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This study was funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperationa and the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space under the 5th Call for Proposals on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Scientific Track 2016), COMPALS Project.

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Funding for this study was provided by Health Labour Sciences Research Grant from grant ‘H29-ICT-ippan-001’.

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NeuroBANK^™ ALS Core is supported by the ALS Association, ALS Finding a Cure Foundation, and the Neurological Clinical Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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NeuroBANK^™ ALS Core is supported by the ALS Association, ALS Finding a Cure Foundation, and the Neurological Clinical Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital.