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Analysis of DPP6 and FGGY as candidate genes for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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The data indicate that mutations in DPP6 and FGGY genes are unlikely to be a common cause of ALS in the French and French Canadian populations.
Abstract
DPP6 and FGGY genes have been recently associated with an increased susceptibility for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Here, we evaluated the role of these genes in ALS pathogenesis by undertaking a sequence analysis of a cohort of 190 ALS patients from France and Quebec. We did not observe any evidence that mutations in DPP6 and FGGY genes are involved in ALS. Our data indicate that mutations in these genes are unlikely to be a common cause of ALS in the French and French Canadian populations.

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A two-stage genome-wide association study of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Adriano Chiò, +77 more
TL;DR: The findings of this GWAS suggest that ALS is more genetically and clinically heterogeneous than previously recognized.
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Recent advances in the genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

TL;DR: The first wave of genomewide association studies in ALS clearly show that there is no definitive and common highly penetrant allele that causes ALS, and some interesting candidate genes emerged from these studies.
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Screening for replication of genome-wide SNP associations in sporadic ALS.

TL;DR: In this article, a joint analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) data on 958 sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases and 932 controls from Ireland and the publicly available data sets from the United States and the Netherlands was reported.
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