Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: New genetic insights
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to better understand the causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, a group of scientists at the Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal Research Centre (CRCHUM) studied 29 genes involved in the development of motor neurons in 190 ALS patients from Quebec and France. The results of this large-scale study were recently published in the online version of Archives of Neurology.