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De novo FUS mutations in 2 Korean patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Mar 2015
Kim Young-Eun, Oh Ki-Wook, Kwon Min-Jung, Choi Won-Jun, Oh Seong-il, Ki Chang-Seok, Kim Seung Hyun
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder. Approximately 5% of ALS patients are familial (fALS) cases, and the remaining 95% are apparently sporadic (sALS) cases. To date, a number of genes have been discovered as associated with ALS, but the genetic background of sALS is not yet fully understood. The occurrence of de novo mutations in ALS genes might be an explanation for...
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