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  • 1Departments of Neurology (Drs Salazar, Montes, Young, Chiriboga, and De Vivo) and Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (Drs Montes and Young), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York; Departments of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (Dr McDermott) and Neurology (Mr Martens and Dr McDermott), University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Departments of Neurology (Dr Darras) and Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Services (Drs Pasternak and Mirek and Ms Quigley), Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Neurology (Dr Tennekoon) and Department of Physical Therapy (Dr Glanzman), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Division of Neurology (Mr Civitello and Dr Finkel), Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, Florida; Department of Neurology (Mr Gee, Ms Duong, and Dr Day), Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California; Department of Paediatric Neurology (Mss Mazzone, Coratti, and Fanelli, Messrs De Sanctis and Forcina, and Dr Mercuri), Catholic University, Rome, Italy; Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre (Mss Main and Ramsey and Drs Scoto and Muntoni), UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom; John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (Dr Mayhew and Mr Muni Lofra), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Pediatric Physical Therapy : the Official Publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association
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