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Telomere length is greater in ALS than in controls: a whole genome sequencing study

Ahmad Al KhleifatDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-7406-9831View further author information
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Alfredo IacoangeliDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; ;Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King’s College London, London, UK; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-5280-5017View further author information
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Aleksey ShatunovDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; View further author information
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Ton FangDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; View further author information
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William SprovieroDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; View further author information
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Ashley R. JonesDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; View further author information
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Sarah Opie-MartinDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; View further author information
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Karen E. MorrisonFaculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; View further author information
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Pamela J. ShawSheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8925-2567View further author information
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Christopher E. ShawDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; ;King’s College Hospital, London, UK; ;Psychology and Neuroscience, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK, and; View further author information
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John F. PowellDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; View further author information
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Richard DobsonDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King’s College London, London, UK; ;Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, UCL Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UKView further author information
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Steven J. NewhouseDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King’s College London, London, UK; ;Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, UCL Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UKView further author information
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Ammar Al-ChalabiDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, UK; ;King’s College Hospital, London, UK; Correspondence[email protected]
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Pages 229-234 | Received 05 Nov 2018, Accepted 10 Feb 2019, Published online: 01 Apr 2019

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