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Concurrent variably protease-sensitive prionopathy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Acknowledgments

We thank Monica Castanedes-Casey, Linda Rousseau, and Virginia Phillips for technical support. This work was supported by P50 AG16574, P50 NS072187, P01 AG14359 and U51 CK000309.

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  1. Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA

    Ashley Cannon, Kevin F. Bieniek, Wen-Lang Lin & Dennis W. Dickson

  2. Department of Pathology, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH , 44106, USA

    Silvio Notari, Wen-Quan Zou & Pierluigi Gambetti

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA

    Otto Pedraza & Tanis J. Ferman

  4. Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA

    Neill R. Graff-Radford

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A. Cannon, K. F. Bieniek contributed equally to this manuscript.

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Cannon, A., Bieniek, K.F., Lin, WL. et al. Concurrent variably protease-sensitive prionopathy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Acta Neuropathol 128, 313–315 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-014-1309-8

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