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Mutation analysis of MFSD8 in an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cohort from mainland China.
The European journal of neuroscience - 1 Feb 2021
Huang Ling, Liu Zhen, Yuan Yanchun, Shen Lu, Jiang Hong, Tang Beisha, Wang Junling, Lei Lifang
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have suggested that rare variants in MFSD8 contribute to risk for frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Considering the common underlying pathogenesis and the shared genetic risk between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and FTD, we screened the coding region of MFSD8 in 551 unrelated patients with ALS (510 unrelated sporadic ALS and 41 familial ALS probands) from mainland China by whole-exome...
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