About the Authors

Fernando G. Vieira

fvieira@als.net

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qinggong Ping

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andy J. Moreno

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joshua D. Kidd

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kenneth Thompson

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bingbing Jiang

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

John M. Lincecum

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Monica Z. Wang

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerard S. De Zutter

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valerie R. Tassinari

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Beth Levine

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Theo Hatzipetros

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan Gill

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven Perrin

Affiliation ALS Therapy Development Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FGV QP BJ JML GSD BL AG SP. Performed the experiments: FGV QP BJ GSD AJM JDK VRT KT TH. Analyzed the data: FGV QP JML GSD AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT MZW SP. Wrote the paper: FGV JDK KT GSD VRT TH SP.