An exploratory spatial analysis of ALS incidence in Ireland over 17.5 years (1995-July 2013).

INTRODUCTION:There has been much interest in spatial analysis of ALS to identify potential environmental or genetically caused clusters of disease. Results to date have been inconclusive. The Irish ALS register has been recently geocoded, presenting opportunity to perform a spatial analysis on natio...

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Main Authors: James Rooney, Mark Heverin, Alice Vajda, Arlene Crampsie, Katy Tobin, Susan Byrne, Anthony Staines, Orla Hardiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4035264?pdf=render