Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sarah Morgan, Aleksey Shatunov, William Sproviero, Ashley R Jones, Maryam Shoai, Deborah Hughes, Ahmad Al Khleifat, Andrea Malaspina, Karen E Morrison, Pamela J Shaw, Christopher E Shaw, Katie Sidle, Richard W Orrell, Pietro Fratta, John Hardy, Alan Pittman, Ammar Al-Chalabi
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 1611-1618 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Brain : a journal of neurology |
Volume | 140 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 18 Apr 2017 |
DOIs | |
Accepted/In press | 5 Feb 2017 |
E-pub ahead of print | 18 Apr 2017 |
Published | 1 Jun 2017 |
A comprehensive analysis of_MORGAN_Firstonline18April2017_GOLD VoR (CC-BY)
A_comprehensive_analysis_of_MORGAN_Firstonline18April2017_GOLD_VoR_CC_BY_.pdf, 362 KB, application/pdf
Uploaded date:09 Jun 2017
Version:Final published version
Licence:CC BY
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons. About 25 genes have been verified as relevant to the disease process, with rare and common variation implicated. We used next generation sequencing and repeat sizing to comprehensively assay genetic variation in a panel of known amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genes in 1126 patient samples and 613 controls. About 10% of patients were predicted to carry a pathological expansion of the C9orf72 gene. We found an increased burden of rare variants in patients within the untranslated regions of known disease-causing genes, driven by SOD1, TARDBP, FUS, VCP, OPTN and UBQLN2. We found 11 patients (1%) carried more than one pathogenic variant (P = 0.001) consistent with an oligogenic basis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. These findings show that the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is complex and that variation in the regulatory regions of associated genes may be important in disease pathogenesis.
King's College London - Homepage
© 2020 King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS | England | United Kingdom | Tel +44 (0)20 7836 5454