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Acknowledgements
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all our coworkers and collaborators, to Dr. Marta Valenza, Dr.
Elena Cattaneo, Dr. Yoshihiro Yoneda for providing plasmids, and to Dr. Keiko Imamura for supportive experiments and iPS Cell Research Fund.
Author contributions
H.I. conceived and planned the project. N.E., H.Shi., and H.I. designed the experiments. N.E. and H.I. wrote
the manuscript. N.E., H.Su., I.T., K.T., T.E., M.Nak., A.W., M. Nai., S.S., T.S., K.K. and T.T. performed the
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experiments. R.T. did critical reading. Y.I., K.F. and R.K. recruited patients and analyzed their spinal fluids. K.I.
and N.T. generated DAP-TDP-43 cell lines. All authors reviewed the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded in part by a Grant for the Core Center for iPS Cell Research of the Research Center
Network for Realization of Regenerative Medicine from AMED to H.I. and the Nakabayashi Trust for ALS
Research (N.E.).
Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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