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Truncating mutations in FUS/TLS give rise to a more aggressive ALS-phenotype than missense mutations: a clinico-genetic study in Germany.
European journal of neurology - 1 Mar 2013
Waibel S, Neumann M, Rosenbohm A, Birve A, Volk A E, Weishaupt J H, Meyer T, Müller U, Andersen P M, Ludolph A C
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Mutations in the FUS/TLS have been associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a few percent of patients. METHODS: We screened 184 familial (FALS) and 200 sporadic German patients with ALS for FUS/TLS mutations by sequence analysis of exons 5, 6 and 13-15. We co...
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