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Pathogenicity of exonic indels in fused in sarcoma in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Feb 2012
Rutherford Nicola J, Finch Nicole A, DeJesus-Hernandez Mariely, Crook Richard J P, Lomen-Hoerth Catherine, Wszolek Zbigniew K, Uitti Ryan J, Graff-Radford Neill R, Rademakers Rosa
Abstract excerpt
Insertion and deletion variants (indels) within poly glycine tracts of fused in sarcoma (FUS) were initially reported as causative of disease in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Subsequent studies identified similar indels in controls and suggested that these indels may confer susceptibility to ALS. We aimed to elucidate the role of previously published and novel exonic indels in FUS in an extensive cohort of...
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