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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in an urban setting

A population based study of inner city London

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Acknowledgements

We thank Drs. Bryan Traynor and Orla Hardiman who kindly provided data from the Irish ALS register, and Miss Rosie Leigh for her contribution to the data collection. We are grateful to the MRC, MNDA, Jenkins family and Myrtle Sketchley Memorial Trust for funding.

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  1. MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, SE5 8AF

    Clare A. Johnston, Biba R. Stanton, Martin R. Turner, Rebecca Gray, Ashley Hay-Ming Blunt, David Butt, Christopher E. Shaw, P. Nigel Leigh &  Ammar Al-Chalabi

  2. King’s College Hospital NHS Trust , Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS

    Biba R. Stanton, Mary-Ann Ampong, Christopher E. Shaw, P. Nigel Leigh &  Ammar Al-Chalabi

  3. Institute of Psychiatry PO43, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF

    Ammar Al-Chalabi

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C.A. Johnston, B.R. Stanton contributed equally to the preparation of this report

Received in revised form: 1 December 2005

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Johnston, C.A., Stanton, B.R., Turner, M.R. et al. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in an urban setting. J Neurol 253, 1642–1643 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-006-0195-y

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