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LD is funded by a PhD Fellowship of the Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) (1165119N). EVS is funded by an SB PhD Fellowship of FWO-Vlaanderen (1S46219N). PVD holds a senior clinical investigatorship of FWO-Vlaanderen and is supported by the ALS Liga Belgium and the KU Leuven ALS funds ‘Een hart voor ALS’ and ‘Laeversfonds voor ALS onderzoek’. PVD and DRT received C1-internal funds from KU Leuven (C14-17–107). DRT and RV received funding from FWO-Odysseus Grant no. G0F8516N and Vlaamse Impulsfinanciering voor Netwerken voor Dementie Onderzoek (VIND, IWT 135043). We thank Bruno Van Keirsbilck, Alicja Ronisz, Simona Ospitalieri, Petra Weckx and Marta Koper for technical support.
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Dedeene, L., Van Schoor, E., Race, V. et al. An ALS case with 38 (G4C2)-repeats in the C9orf72 gene shows TDP-43 and sparse dipeptide repeat protein pathology. Acta Neuropathol 137, 855–858 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-019-01996-z
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