On the decline and etiology of high-inci
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Peter S. Spencer; Valerie S. Palmer; Albert C. Ludolph
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The etiology of a high-incidence focus of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism-dementia (ALS/P-D) in south West Papua (Irian Jaya, Indonesia), first described in the 1960s and 1970s, has been attributed to mineral deficiencies, hyperparathyroidism, and metal neurotoxicity arising from reli