Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

EL Feldman, SA Goutman, S Petri, L Mazzini… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal CNS neurodegenerative disease. Despite intensive
research, current management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis remains suboptimal from …

Emerging insights into the complex genetics and pathophysiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SA Goutman, O Hardiman, A Al-Chalabi… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. The discovery of genes
associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commencing with SOD1 in 1993, started fairly …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: translating genetic discoveries into therapies

F Akçimen, ER Lopez, JE Landers, A Nath… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in sequencing technologies and collaborative efforts have led to
substantial progress in identifying the genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

Aberrant splicing prediction across human tissues

N Wagner, MH Çelik, FR Hölzlwimmer, C Mertes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Aberrant splicing is a major cause of genetic disorders but its direct detection in
transcriptomes is limited to clinically accessible tissues such as skin or body fluids. While …

The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis exposome: recent advances and future directions

SA Goutman, MG Savelieff, DG Jang, J Hur… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease of motor neuron degeneration with
typical survival of only 2–5 years from diagnosis. The causes of ALS are multifactorial …

Nutritional and metabolic factors in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Ludolph, L Dupuis, E Kasarskis, F Steyn… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that is
classically thought to impact the motor system. Over the past 20 years, research has started …

Value of systematic genetic screening of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SR Shepheard, MD Parker, J Cooper-Knock… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective The clinical utility of routine genetic sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) is uncertain. Our aim was to determine whether routine targeted sequencing of 44 …

Short tandem repeat expansions in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

L Henden, LG Fearnley, N Grima, EP McCann… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Pathogenic short tandem repeat (STR) expansions cause over 20 neurodegenerative
diseases. To determine the contribution of STRs in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

ME Lauterbur, MIA Cavassim, AL Gladstein, G Gower… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Simulation is a key tool in population genetics for both methods development and empirical
research, but producing simulations that recapitulate the main features of genomic datasets …

Advances in molecular pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

H Ilieva, M Vullaganti, J Kwan - bmj, 2023 - bmj.com
Although the past two decades have produced exciting discoveries in the genetics and
pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progress in developing an effective therapy …