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Clinical characteristics of SOD1 gene mutations in UK families with ALS.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 31 Oct 1999
Orrell R W, Habgood J J, Malaspina A, Mitchell J, Greenwood J, Lane R J, deBelleroche J S
Abstract excerpt
Five to ten percent of patients with ALS have a family history of the disease, inheritance is usually autosomal dominant. Mutations of the SOD1 gene were first identified in a proportion of families with ALS by Rosen et al. The SOD1 gene encodes the enzyme copper zinc superoxide dismutase. Patients were studied from throughout the UK, where more than one individual in the family had ALS. Clinical history and...
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