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Novel deletion mutations of OPTN in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Japanese.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Aug 2012
Iida Aritoshi, Hosono Naoya, Sano Motoki, Kamei Tetsumasa, Oshima Shuichi, Tokuda Torao, Nakajima Masahiro, Kubo Michiaki, Nakamura Yusuke, Ikegawa Shiro
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by selective motor neuron death in the brain and spinal cord. Many disease genes for ALS have been identified; however, each disease gene is responsible for very small fractions of ALS. Recently, mutations of t...
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