Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS
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...With the exception of individuals with mutations in TARDBP, GRN, VCP or c9ORF72 [10, 18], it is not clear whether TDP-43 proteinopathy in these other neurodegenerative diseases is...
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...In familial ALS, 15%–20% of patients are found to have mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1) (Rosen et al., 1993)....
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...MC Clinical FTD Familial 171 20 (11.7) 13 (7.6) 12 (6.3) n/a n/a n/a Sporadic 203 6 (3.0) 6 (3.0) 3 (1.5) n/a n/a n/a MCF Clinical ALS Familial 34 8 (23.5) n/a n/a 4 (11.8) 1 (2.9) 1 (2.9) Sporadic 195 8 (4.1) n/a n/a 0 (0.0) 2 (1.0) 3 (1.5) ALS = amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; c9FTD/ALS = (GGGGCC)n repeat expansion at chromosome 9p identified in this study; FTD = frontotemporal dementia; FTLD-TDP = frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology; FUS = fused in sarcoma gene; GRN = progranulin gene; MAPT =microtubule-associated protein tau gene; MC =Mayo Clinic; MCF =Mayo Clinic Florida; n/a = not assessed; SOD1 = superoxide dismutase 1 gene; TARDBP = TAR DNA-binding protein 43 gene; UBC = University of British Columbia. a Includes 22 individuals for which no information on family history was available. unrelated expanded repeat carriers had at least one copy of the ‘‘risk’’ haplotype (100...
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...Importantly, a direct comparison of the frequency of repeat expansions in C9ORF72 with mutations in SOD1, TARDBP, and FUS revealed GGGGCC expansions to be the most common genetic cause of sporadic and familial ALS in our clinical series (Table 1)....
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...Treatments shown to be effective in SOD1 mouse models, however, have generally not been effective in ALS clinical trials, and the absence of TDP-43 pathology in cases with SOD1 mutations suggests that motor neuron degeneration in these cases may result from a different mechanism (Mackenzie et al., 2007)....
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...This familial association is not well explained by the currently recognized genetic defects; GRNmutations are not associated with significant motor neuron deficits, while patients carrying mutations in SOD1, TARDBP, or FUS are rarely affected by FTD. Linkage analysis in several autosomal-dominant families in which affected members develop either ALS or FTD or both, and where the pathology is consistently TDP positive, have suggested a major locus for FTD/ALS on chromosome 9p21....
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...Foci were never observed in any of the samples using a probe targeting the unrelated CCTG repeat (probe (CAGG)6), implicated in myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) (Liquori et al., 2001), further supporting the specificity of the RNA foci composed of GGGGCC in these patients (Figure 5D)....
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...While our manuscript was in preparation we learned of another group who independently identified repeat expansions in C9ORF72 as the cause of FTD and ALS linked to chromosome 9p (Renton et al. 2011)....
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