About the Authors

Estelle Masseret

Affiliation Ecologie des Systèmes Marins Côtiers, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5119, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Ifremer, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Sandra Banack

Affiliation Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America

Farid Boumédiène

Affiliation Net, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1094, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France

Eric Abadie

Affiliation Laboratoire Environnement Ressources/Languedoc Roussillon, Ifremer, Sète, France

Luc Brient

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 6553, Eco-bio, Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France

Fabrice Pernet

Current address: Unité de Recherche Physiologie Fonctionnelle des Organismes Marins, Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Environnement Marin, Ifremer, Plouzané, France

Affiliation Ifremer-Laboratoire Environnement Ressource Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France

Raoul Juntas-Morales

Affiliation Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Gui de Chauliac and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1051, Montpellier University 1, Montpellier, France

Nicolas Pageot

Affiliation Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Gui de Chauliac and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1051, Montpellier University 1, Montpellier, France

James Metcalf

Affiliation Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America

Paul Cox

Affiliation Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America

William Camu

w-camu@chu-montpellier.fr

Affiliation Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Gui de Chauliac and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1051, Montpellier University 1, Montpellier, France

the French Network on ALS Clusters Detection and Investigation

Membership of the French Network on ALS Clusters Detection and Investigation is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM SB FB EA LB JM PC WC. Performed the experiments: EM SB FB EA LB FP JM. Analyzed the data: EM SB FB EA FP RJM NP JM PC WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM SB FB EA LB FP JM PC WC. Wrote the manuscript: EM SB FB EA LB FP PC WC.