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Current pathways for epidemiological research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Pam Factor-LitvakDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Ammar Al-ChalabiDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
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Alberto AscherioDepartment of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Walter BradleyDepartment of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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Adriano ChíoDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Torino, and AOU San Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy
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Ralph GarrutoDepartments of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA
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Orla HardimanDepartment of Neurology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Freya KamelChronic Disease Epidemiology Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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Edward KasarskisDepartment of Neurology, University of Kentucky and VA Medical Centers, Lexington, Kentucky
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Ann McKeeDepartment of Neurology and Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Imaharu NakanoDepartment of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi-ken, Japan
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Lorene M. NelsonDivision of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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Andrew EisenDepartment of Neurology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Pages 33-43 | Published online: 16 May 2013

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