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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with homozygosity for an Asp90Ala mutation in CuZn-superoxide dismutase.
Nature genetics - 1 May 1995
Andersen P M, Nilsson P, Ala-Hurula V, Keränen M L, Tarvainen I, Haltia T, Nilsson L, Binzer M, Forsgren L, Marklund S L
Abstract excerpt
Recent reports have shown heterozygosity for some twenty different mutations in the CuZn-superoxide dismutase (CuZn-SOD) gene in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS), and analysed samples from patients have shown decreased enzymic activity. Here we report homozygosity for an exon 4 mutation, Asp90Ala in fourteen patients among four unrelated ALS families and four apparently sporadic ALS patients from...
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