Identification of novel SNPs of ABCD1, ABCD2, ABCD3, and ABCD4 genes in patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) based on comprehensive resequencing and association studies with ALD phenotypes.

"Disclosures The experiments comply with the current laws of the country in which they were performed. The authors report no conflicts of interest."

"This study was partially supported by KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) on Priority Areas, Applied Genomics, the Twenty-first Century COE Program, Center for Integrated Brain Medical Science, and Scientific Research (A) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; a Grant-in-Aid for “the Research Committee for Ataxic Diseases” of the Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan; and a grant from the Takeda Foundation. MA and PA were supported by grants from INSERM and European Leukodystrophy Foundation (2008-001C4A)."