Progress in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Gene Discovery

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most prominent motor neuron disease in humans. Its etiology consists of progressive motor neuron degeneration resulting in a rapid decline in motor function starting in the limbs or bulbar muscles and eventually fatally impairing central organs most typically resulting in loss of respiration. Pathogenic variants in 4 main genes, SOD1, TARDBP, FUS, and C9orf72, have been...

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