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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr. David Picketts for his critical appraisal of the manuscript and Kevin Young for help with the figures. E.M. McCready’s personal funding was provided by a CIHR studentship. This work was supported by funds from the CIHR, ORDCF and Genome Canada.

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  1. Ottawa Health Research Institute, Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, University of Ottawa, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1H 8L6

    M. Elizabeth McCready, Allison Grimsey & Dennis E. Bulman

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    M. Elizabeth McCready, Allison Grimsey & Dennis E. Bulman

  3. Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Dennis E. Bulman

  4. Springfield, PA, USA

    Timothy Styer

  5. Department of Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Sarah M. Nikkel

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M. Elizabeth McCready and Allison Grimsey contributed equally to this work.

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00439-006-0265-3

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McCready, M.E., Grimsey, A., Styer, T. et al. A century later Farabee has his mutation. Hum Genet 117, 285–287 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-005-1289-9

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