About the Authors
- Giancarlo Logroscino
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: giancarlo.logroscino@uniba.it
Affiliations Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy, Unit of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, at “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico“, Tricase, Lecce, Italy
- Benoit Marin
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy, Unit of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, at “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico“, Tricase, Lecce, Italy, INSERM UMR1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Limoges, France, University of Limoges, School of Medicine, Institute of Neuroepidemiology and Tropical Neurology, CNRS FR 3503 GEIST, Limoges, France, CHU Limoges, Centre d’Epidémiologie de Biostatistique et de Méthodologie de la Recherche, Limoges, France, Laboratorio di Malattie Neurologiche, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy
- Marco Piccininni
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Unit of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, at “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico“, Tricase, Lecce, Italy
- Simona Arcuti
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Unit of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, at “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico“, Tricase, Lecce, Italy
- Adriano Chiò
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations ALS Center, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Neuroscience Institute of Turin (NIT), Turin, Italy, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, C.N.R., Rome, Italy
- Orla Hardiman
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- James Rooney
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Academic Unit of Neurology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Stefano Zoccolella
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
- Philippe Couratier
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations INSERM UMR1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Limoges, France, University of Limoges, School of Medicine, Institute of Neuroepidemiology and Tropical Neurology, CNRS FR 3503 GEIST, Limoges, France, CHU Limoges, Service de Neurologie, Centre expert SLA, Limoges, France
- Pierre-Marie Preux
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Unit of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, at “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico“, Tricase, Lecce, Italy, INSERM UMR1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Limoges, France, University of Limoges, School of Medicine, Institute of Neuroepidemiology and Tropical Neurology, CNRS FR 3503 GEIST, Limoges, France
- Ettore Beghi
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Laboratorio di Malattie Neurologiche, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy
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¶Complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments
Competing Interests
Philippe Couratier has received speaking honoraria form Cytokinetics and Effik. Orla Hardiman has received speaking honoraria from Novarits, Biogen Idec, Sanofi Aventis and Merck- Serono. She has been a member of advisory panels for Biogen Idec, Allergen, Ono Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Cytokinetics and Sanofi Aventis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.