The researchers, in addition to Bennett and Chance, were Ying-Zhang Chen, Huy Huynh, and Ian Blair, all from the UW; Imke Puls, Annette Abel, and Kenneth Fischbeck of the Neurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Joy Irobi, Ines Diereck, Peter De Jonghe, and Vincent Timmerman of the University of Antwerp in Belgium; Marina Kennerson and Garth Nicholson of the University of Sydney, Australia; Bruce Rabin, John W. Griffin and David Cornblath of Johns Hopkins University; and Klaus Wagner of Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria.

Funding came from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, Fund for Scientific Research, University of Antwerp, Medical Foundation Queen Elizabeth, Association Belge contre lest Maladies Neuro-Musculaires, Interuniversity Attraction Poles Program of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, and the Austria Science Fund.

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