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Correspondence: brynm@uidaho.edu
Braden J. Lawrence and Aintzane Urbizu contributed equally to this manuscript.
AU, AB, BAM, BJI, BGR, CM, FL, JNO, JRK, MGL, PAA, and RST conceived and designed the study, obtained and processed the MRI data.
AU, BJI, BAM, CM, MGL, and JNO were involved in patient selection and clinical data acquisition.
AU, BAM, BJL, and JAC were involved in design and implementation of the statistical portion of the paper as well as interpretation of the data and writing the manuscript.
All authors contributed to editing of the manuscript.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Publication of this article was funded by the University of Idaho Open Access Publishing Fund.
This work was supported by The Chiari and Syringomyelia Patient Education Foundation and NIH NINDS grant 1R15NS071455-01 (FL), NIH NIGMS grants P20GM103408 (BAM) and 4U54GM104944-04 (BAM) and the University of Washington School of Medicine Medical Student Research Training Program (MSRTP–BJL).
AU was the recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Fundación Ramón Areces (Spain) and mentored by BAM.
BAM served as Director of the Conquer Chiari Research Center and received research funding from American Syringomyelia and Chiari Alliance Project at the time of this study.
FL served as Executive Director at Conquer Chiari Research Center and received research funding from Conquer Chiari at the time of this study.
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