Atypical familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with initial symptoms of pain or tremor in a Chinese family harboring VAPB-P56S mutation.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most prevalent fatal motor neuron disease and ~10% of cases are hereditary. Mutations associated with ALS have been identified in more than 20 genes, but ALS type 8 (ALS8), which is caused by mutations in vesicle-associated membrane protein-associated protein B (VAPB), is rare. To date, the dominant missense mutation P56S, which is in the major sperm protein domain of...

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