Genetic epidemiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ZY Zou, ZR Zhou, CH Che, CY Liu, RL He… - Journal of Neurology …, 2017 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Genetic studies have shown that C9orf72, SOD1, TARDBP and FUS are the
most common mutated genes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here, we performed a …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: moving towards a new classification system

A Al-Chalabi, O Hardiman, MC Kiernan, A Chiò… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive adult-onset neurodegenerative disease that
primarily affects upper and lower motor neurons, but also frontotemporal and other regions …

The epidemiology of ALS: a conspiracy of genes, environment and time

A Al-Chalabi, O Hardiman - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2013 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative disease
of motor neurons, resulting in worsening weakness of voluntary muscles until death from …

Risk factors for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

C Ingre, PM Roos, F Piehl, F Kamel… - Clinical epidemiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron disease. It is typically
fatal within 2–5 years of symptom onset. The incidence of ALS is largely uniform across most …

Genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A review

S Mathis, C Goizet, A Soulages, JM Vallat… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder of the motor pathways,
invariably leading to death within a few years of onset. Most cases of ALS are sporadic, but …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

O Hardiman, A Al-Chalabi, A Chio, EM Corr… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease, is characterized
by the degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons, which leads to muscle …

Clinical diagnosis and management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

O Hardiman, LH Van Den Berg… - Nature reviews neurology, 2011 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that results in
progressive loss of bulbar and limb function. Patients typically die from respiratory failure …

Clinical genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: what do we really know?

PM Andersen, A Al-Chalabi - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2011 - nature.com
Hereditary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) encompasses a group of genetic disorders
characterized by adult-onset loss of the lower and upper motor neuron systems, often with …

Cognitive and clinical characteristics of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying a C9orf72 repeat expansion: a population-based cohort study

S Byrne, M Elamin, P Bede, A Shatunov… - The Lancet …, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative
disease of upper and lower motor neurons, associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) …

The multistep hypothesis of ALS revisited: the role of genetic mutations

A Chiò, L Mazzini, S D'Alfonso, L Corrado, A Canosa… - Neurology, 2018 - AAN Enterprises
Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) incidence rates are consistent with the
hypothesis that ALS is a multistep process. We tested the hypothesis that carrying a large …