Telomere length analysis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using large-scale whole genome sequence data

Ahmad Al Khleifat; Alfredo Iacoangeli; Ashley Jones; Joke van Vugt; Aleksey Shatunov; Matthieu Moisse; Aleksey Shatunov; Ramona A.J. Zwamborn; Rick van der Spek; Johnathan Cooper-Knock; Simon Topp; Wouter van Rheenen; Brendan J Kenna; Kristel R. van Eijk; Kevin P Kenna; Ross P. Byrne; Victoria  López Alonso; Sarah Opie-Martin; Atay  Vural; Yolanda  González; Markus Weber; Bradley Smith; Isabella Fogh; Vincenzo Silani; Karen E. Morrison; Richard Dobson; Michael A. van Es; Russell L. McLaughlin; Adriano Chio; Philippe Corcia; Mamede de Carvalho; Marc Gotkine; Monica P. Panades; Jesus S Mora; Pamela J. Shaw; John E. Landers; Jonathan D. Glass; Christopher Shaw; A. Nazli Başak; Orla Hardiman; Wim Robberecht; Philip Van Damme; Leonard van den Berg; Jan Veldink; Ammar Al-Chalabi

Telomere length analysis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using large-scale whole genome sequence data

Ahmad Al Khleifat
, Alfredo Iacoangeli
, Ashley Jones
, Joke van Vugt
, Aleksey Shatunov
, Matthieu Moisse
, Aleksey Shatunov
, Ramona A.J. Zwamborn
, Rick van der Spek
, Johnathan Cooper-Knock
, Simon Topp
, Wouter van Rheenen
, Brendan J Kenna
, Kristel R. van Eijk
, Kevin P Kenna
, Ross P. Byrne
, Victoria López Alonso
, Sarah Opie-Martin
, Atay Vural
, Yolanda González

Markus Weber, Bradley Smith, Isabella Fogh, Vincenzo Silani, Karen E. Morrison, Richard Dobson, Michael A. van Es, Russell L. McLaughlin, Adriano Chio, Philippe Corcia, Mamede de Carvalho, Marc Gotkine, Monica P. Panades, Jesus S Mora, Pamela J. Shaw, John E. Landers, Jonathan D. Glass, Christopher Shaw, A. Nazli Başak, Orla Hardiman, Wim Robberecht, Philip Van Damme, Leonard van den Berg, Jan Veldink, Ammar Al-Chalabi

UMC University Medical Center Utrecht
KU Leuven
VIB Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Leuven Brain Institute
University Hospitals Leuven
University of Sheffield
The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience
Section of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, University of Sheffield School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, L Floor, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, UK.
Utrecht University
Project MinE ALS Sequencing Consortium
Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland.
Department of Urology
King's College London
Kantonsspital St Gallen
University of Basel Hospital
Kantonsspital St Gallen, Neuromuscular Dis Unit
Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic
Head and Neck Surgery Kantonsspital St Gallen
University of Milan
IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Policlinico of Milan
Trinity College Dublin
University of Turin
Rita Levi Montalcini
Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza
AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
University of Tours
CHRU, Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Tours
Centre de compétence SLA-fédération Tours-Limoges
University of Lisbon
Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
H Santa Maria-CHLN
Hadassah University Medical Centre
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Faculty of Medicine
Bellvitge University Hospital
Hospital San Rafael
University of Barcelona
University of Massachusetts System
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Emory University
Emory University School of Medicine
Koç University
Boǧaziçi University
Beaumont Hospital

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Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons, is a complex genetic disease with heritability
of 60%. Only about 14% of apparently sporadic ALS is explained by known genetic variation, suggesting that other forms of genetic variation are important, in addition to the known risk factors, male sex and increasing age. Telomeres maintain DNA integrity during cellular replication, differ between sexes, and shorten naturally with age. We find that longer telomeres are associated with ALS and specific phenotypic patterns of disease expression. We see the same pattern of telomere elongation in ALS in brain tissue. The association of longer telomeres with apparently sporadic ALS was also seen in people with familial ALS, supporting the notion that sporadic and familial ALS are not mutually exclusive categories but rather a spectrum.

Original language	English
Journal	Frontiers in cellular neuroscience
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2022

Keywords

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Telomere
genetics
Whole genome sequence (WGS
Genomics
Big Data
bioinforamtics

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Al Khleifat, A., Iacoangeli, A., Jones, A., van Vugt, J., Shatunov, A., Moisse, M., Shatunov, A., Zwamborn, R. A. J., van der Spek, R., Cooper-Knock, J., Topp, S., van Rheenen, W., Kenna, B. J., van Eijk, K. R., Kenna, K. P., Byrne, R. P., López Alonso, V., Opie-Martin, S., Vural, A., ... Al-Chalabi, A. (2022). Telomere length analysis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using large-scale whole genome sequence data. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience.

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Telomere length analysis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using large-scale whole genome sequence data

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