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What causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
2017-03-28
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease predominantly affecting upper and lower motor neurons, resulting in progressive paralysis and death from respiratory failure within 2 to 3 years. The peak age of onset is 55 to 70 years, with a male predominance. The causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are only partly known, but they include some environmental risk factors as well as several genes th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 65f11185-c0a8-58bb-b299-34047c06e4a8
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- 10.12688/f1000research.10476.1