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Establishing the UK DNA Bank for motor neuron disease (MND)

In 2003 the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association, together with The Wellcome Trust, funded the creation of a national DNA Bank specific for MND. It was anticipated that the DNA Bank would constitute an important resource to researchers worldwide and significantly increase activity in MND genetic...

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Autores principales: Smith, Lucy, Cupid, B. C., Dickie, B. G. M., Al-Chalabi, A., Morrison, K. E., Shaw, C. E., Shaw, P. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4501191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0236-6
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Al-Chalabi, A.
Morrison, K. E.
Shaw, C. E.
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description In 2003 the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association, together with The Wellcome Trust, funded the creation of a national DNA Bank specific for MND. It was anticipated that the DNA Bank would constitute an important resource to researchers worldwide and significantly increase activity in MND genetic research. The DNA Bank houses over 3000 high quality DNA samples, all of which were donated by people living with MND, family members and non-related controls, accompanied by clinical phenotype data about the patients. Today the primary focus of the UK MND DNA Bank still remains to identify causative and disease modifying factors for this devastating disease. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-015-0236-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-45011912015-07-15 Establishing the UK DNA Bank for motor neuron disease (MND) Smith, Lucy Cupid, B. C. Dickie, B. G. M. Al-Chalabi, A. Morrison, K. E. Shaw, C. E. Shaw, P. J. BMC Genet Correspondence In 2003 the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association, together with The Wellcome Trust, funded the creation of a national DNA Bank specific for MND. It was anticipated that the DNA Bank would constitute an important resource to researchers worldwide and significantly increase activity in MND genetic research. The DNA Bank houses over 3000 high quality DNA samples, all of which were donated by people living with MND, family members and non-related controls, accompanied by clinical phenotype data about the patients. Today the primary focus of the UK MND DNA Bank still remains to identify causative and disease modifying factors for this devastating disease. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-015-0236-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4501191/ /pubmed/26170009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0236-6 Text en © Smith et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_sort establishing the uk dna bank for motor neuron disease (mnd)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4501191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0236-6
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