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) …

C9orf72-mediated ALS and FTD: multiple pathways to disease

R Balendra, AM Isaacs - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
The discovery that repeat expansions in the C9orf72 gene are a frequent cause of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has revolutionized …

Noncoding CGG repeat expansions in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease, oculopharyngodistal myopathy and an overlapping disease

H Ishiura, S Shibata, J Yoshimura, Y Suzuki, W Qu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Noncoding repeat expansions cause various neuromuscular diseases, including myotonic
dystrophies, fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome, some spinocerebellar ataxias, amyotrophic …

The overlapping genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

YA Abramzon, P Fratta, BJ Traynor… - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two diseases
that form a broad neurodegenerative continuum. Considerable effort has been made to …

State of play in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics

AE Renton, A Chiò, BJ Traynor - Nature neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
Considerable progress has been made in unraveling the genetic etiology of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of adult-onset motor neuron disease and the …

C9ORF72: what it is, what it does, and why it matters

J Smeyers, EG Banchi, M Latouche - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
When the non-coding repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene was discovered to be the
most frequent cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Expansions of intronic TTTCA and TTTTA repeats in benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy

H Ishiura, K Doi, J Mitsui, J Yoshimura… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, and mutations in genes encoding ion channels
or neurotransmitter receptors are frequent causes of monogenic forms of epilepsy. Here we …

Autophagy and ALS: mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications

JP Chua, H De Calbiac, E Kabashi, SJ Barmada - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mechanisms of protein homeostasis are crucial for overseeing the clearance of misfolded
and toxic proteins over the lifetime of an organism, thereby ensuring the health of neurons …

Protein aggregation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

AM Blokhuis, EJN Groen, M Koppers… - Acta …, 2013 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the
aggregation of ubiquitinated proteins in affected motor neurons. Recent studies have …

C9orf72 repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila through arginine-rich proteins

S Mizielinska, S Grönke, T Niccoli, CE Ridler… - Science, 2014 - science.org
An expanded GGGGCC repeat in C9orf72 is the most common genetic cause of
frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A fundamental question is …