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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: mechanisms and therapeutics in the epigenomic era.
Nature reviews. Neurology - 1 May 2015
Paez-Colasante Ximena, Figueroa-Romero Claudia, Sakowski Stacey A, Goutman Stephen A, Feldman Eva L
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of the motor neurons, which results in weakness and atrophy of voluntary skeletal muscles. Treatments do not modify the disease trajectory effectively, and only modestly improve survival. A complex interaction between genes, environmental exposure and impaired molecular pathways contributes to pathology in patients with ALS. Epigenetic...
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