[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • October 4, 2000
    ``Researchers said on Tuesday they were homing in on a new gene associated with the paralyzing disease known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS or motor neuron disease, which may shed light on what causes the illness and may offer treatments for it. The new gene also seems to be linked with a rare form of dementia that affects these patients....About 25 percent of familial cases are linked to a defect in a gene known as SOD1. This leaves 75 percent of cases unexplained. Looking for a gene is like trying to put a puzzle together without knowing what the final picture will be, [Betsy] Hosler said. But her team seems to have found a common genetic pattern on chromosome 9, she said. `We hope that this locus (area on the chromosome where the gene is found) will now account for another fairly large group of the ALS cases,' she said. It may also shed some light on the causes of dementia.''

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    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001003/sc/health_gehrigs_dc_1.html

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