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A novel candidate region for ALS on chromosome 14q11.2.
Neurology - 23 Nov 2004
Greenway M J, Alexander M D, Ennis S, Traynor B J, Corr B, Frost E, Green A, Hardiman O
Abstract excerpt
Sequence variations with biologic effect in ALS have been identified in the gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The gene for a related protein, angiogenin, lies on chromosome 14q11.2. Analysis of the angiogenin (ANG) gene in the authors' population has demonstrated a significant allelic association with the rs11701 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and identified a novel mutation in two...
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