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No association of the SOD1 locus and disease susceptibility or phenotype in sporadic ALS.
Neurology - 28 Dec 2004
Broom W J, Parton M J, Vance C A, Russ C, Andersen P M, Hansen V, Leigh P N, Powell J F, Al-Chalabi A, Shaw C E
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the copper zinc superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1) are found in 20% of familial and 3% of sporadic ALS patients. SOD1 protein aggregation can be detected in motor neurons of mutation-negative sporadic cases but a pathogenic role for wild-type SOD1 in ALS has not been demonstrated. In this study of 233 ALS cases and 248 controls the authors found no significant association between four individual single...
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