bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.14.382606; this version posted February 15, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Genome-wide Identification of the Genetic Basis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Sai Zhang1,2,*, Johnathan Cooper-Knock3,*, Annika K. Weimer1,2, Minyi Shi1,2, Tobias Moll3, Calum Harvey3, Helia Ghahremani Nezhad3, John Franklin3, Cleide dos Santos Souza3, Cheng Wang4,5,6,7, Jingjing Li4,5,6,7, Eran Elhaik8, Chen Eitan9, Eran Hornstein9, Kevin P. Kenna10, Project MinE Sequencing Consortium, Jan Veldink10, Laura Ferraiuolo3, Pamela J. Shaw3 and Michael P. Snyder1,2 1Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA 2Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA 3Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 4Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 5Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 6Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 7Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 8Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 9Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 10Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands *These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence should be addressed to M.P.S. (
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