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Genome-wide association study combining pathway analysis for typical sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Chinese Han populations.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jul 2014
Xie Tong, Deng Libin, Mei Puming, Zhou Yiyi, Wang Bo, Zhang Jie, Lin Jiari, Wei Yi, Zhang Xiong, Xu Renshi
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Sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) is a severe neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive motor neuron death. Although the etiology of sALS remains unknown, genetic variants are thought to predispose individuals to the disease. Several recent genome-wide association studies have identified a number of loci that increase sALS susceptibility, but these only explain a small proportion of the...
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