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Deletions causing spinal muscular atrophy do not predispose to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Archives of neurology - 1 Jun 1999
Parboosingh J S, Meininger V, McKenna-Yasek D, Brown R H, Rouleau G A
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BACKGROUND: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive, invariably lethal disease resulting from the premature death of motor neurons of the motor cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord. In approximately 15% of familial ALS cases, the copper/zinc superoxide dismutase gene is mutated; a juvenile form of familial ALS has been linked to chromosome 2. No cause has been identified in the remaining...
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