Neuronal death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): what can we learn from genetics?

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a difficult disease to study as it is mostly sporadic and rapidly progressive. Identification of genes causing familial ALS (FALS) has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of ALS pathogenesis, most notably with the use of mutant superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) models of disease. For 15 years SOD1 models have been the backbone of ALS research, but no effective...

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