Mechanistic basis of an epistatic interaction reducing age at onset in hereditary spastic paraplegia

This work was supported by grants to E.R.; Project Grant from United States Spastic Paraplegia Foundation, UK Medical Research Council Project Grant [MR/M00046X/1], Project grant from NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science [082381], Project Grant from Tom Wahlig Stiftung (project 33). J.E. and P.M. are supported by a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship Grant to Margaret S. Robinson [086598]. T.M.N. was supported by an MRC PhD studentship [G0800117]. B.W. is supported by the Tom Wahlig Advanced Fellowship, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, 01GQ113), the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture, Sciences and Arts in the framework of the Bavarian Molecular Biosystems Research Network and ForIPS, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF, University Hospital of Erlangen, N3 and F3). T.R. was supported by research grant DFG GRK2162/1 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The study was also supported by the European Union within the 7th European Community Framework Program for Research and Technological Development through funding for the NEUROMICS network (F5-2012-305121 to L.S. and A.D.), the E-Rare Network NEUROLIPID (01GM1408B to R.S. and ANR-13-RARE-0003-02 to G.S.), and a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (grant PIOF-GA-2012-326681 to R.S. and L.S.). This work was further supported by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) (grant 5R01NS072248 to R.S.), the German HSP-Selbsthilfegruppe e.V. (grant to R.S. and L.S.), and grants to C.B.: Project Grant from Tom Wahlig Stiftung (project 20), grant from the Stiftung fur Pathobiochemie und Molekulare Diagnostik. CIMR is supported by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award [100140] and Equipment Grant [093026].