Departments of aMedicine (Genetics Program)
bNeurology, Genetics and Genomics, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
cThe Taub Institute on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons
dDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
eDepartment of Medicine, Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto
fToronto Western Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence to Dr Lindsay A. Farrer, Boston University School of Medicine, Genetics Program L-320, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Tel: +1 617 638 5393; e-mail: [email protected]
Current affiliation of Yan Meng, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Received 1 August 2007; accepted 16 August 2007