Gene for Lou Gehrig's disease and frontotemporal dementia identified
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- two fatal neurodegenerative disease with distinct symptoms -- are triggered by a common mutation in many cases, according to researchers who say they have identified the mutated gene.