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Young-onset rapidly progressive ALS associated with heterozygous FUS mutation.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration - 1 Aug 2017
Gromicho Marta, Oliveira Santos Miguel, Pinto Anabela, Pronto-Laborinho Ana, De Carvalho Mamede
Abstract excerpt
We report a 36-years-old Cape Verdean man who presented with respiratory insufficiency due to rapidly progressive sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in whom FUS mutation c.1551C > G (p.Hist517Gln) in heterozygosity was identified, a finding previously described as non-pathogenic. The only previous report on this mutation was in a family from Cape Verde in which four members developed ALS; all were...
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