And to add to this, we cannot know, if the funding wouldn't have happened non the less if IBC didn't happen.
And also to quote from the article:
"NEK1 was discovered through a genome-wide search for ALS risk genes in over 1,000 ALS families, and was independently found through different means in an isolated population in The Netherlands. "
So they already knew about the gene and in time would have found out more on it non the less. So the influence of the IBC seems less and less important, while reading the piece.
Medical research has been taken over by this type of hype. It infests the journal articles as well (although the hype there is usually more sophisticated). The signal to noise ratio is very low right now.
We will have to wait a decade to find out if this was actually a significant development that should be counted as a success.