Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: an update on recent genetic insights

Large C9orf72 Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansions Are Seen in Multiple Neurodegenerative Syndromes and Are More Frequent Than Expected in the UK Population

(2013) Jon Beck et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The product of C9orf72, a gene strongly implicated in neurodegeneration, is structurally related to DENN Rab-GEFs

(2013) Timothy P. Levine et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Loss of TDP-43 causes age-dependent progressive motor neuron degeneration

(2013) Yohei Iguchi et al.   BRAIN

Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS

(2013) Hong Joo Kim et al.   NATURE

Unconventional Translation of C9ORF72 GGGGCC Expansion Generates Insoluble Polypeptides Specific to c9FTD/ALS

(2013) Peter E.A. Ash et al.   NEURON

ALS-linked TDP-43 mutations produce aberrant RNA splicing and adult-onset motor neuron disease without aggregation or loss of nuclear TDP-43

(2013) E. S. Arnold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FUS regulates genes coding for RNA-binding proteins in neurons by binding to their highly conserved introns

(2013) T. Nakaya et al.   RNA

The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS

(2013) K. Mori et al.   SCIENCE

Current insights into the C9orf72 repeat expansion diseases of the FTLD/ALS spectrum

(2013) Marc Cruts et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Prion-like Properties of Pathological TDP-43 Aggregates from Diseased Brains

(2013) Takashi Nonaka et al.   Cell Reports

Pattern of ubiquilin pathology in ALS and FTLD indicates presence of C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion

(2012) Johannes Brettschneider et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Co-aggregation of RNA binding proteins in ALS spinal motor neurons: evidence of a common pathogenic mechanism

(2012) Brian A. Keller et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Overexpression of human wild-type FUS causes progressive motor neuron degeneration in an age- and dose-dependent fashion

(2012) Jacqueline C. Mitchell et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the Kii Peninsula of Japan

(2012) Hiroyuki Ishiura et al.   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

Non-human primate model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with cytoplasmic mislocalization of TDP-43

(2012) Azusa Uchida et al.   BRAIN

Spliceosome integrity is defective in the motor neuron diseases ALS and SMA

(2012) Hitomi Tsuiji et al.   EMBO Molecular Medicine

The C9ORF72 expansion mutation is a common cause of ALS+/−FTD in Europe and has a single founder

(2012) Bradley N Smith et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Evaluating the role of the FUS/TLS-related gene EWSR1 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2012) Julien Couthouis et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Ataxin-2 interacts with FUS and intermediate-length polyglutamine expansions enhance FUS-related pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2012) Manal A. Farg et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Accelerated Disease Onset with Stabilized Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-linked Mutant TDP-43 Proteins

(2012) Shoji Watanabe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Targeted Depletion of TDP-43 Expression in the Spinal Cord Motor Neurons Leads to the Development of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-like Phenotypes in Mice

(2012) Lien-Szu Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia with predominant manifestations of obsessive–compulsive disorder associated to GGGGCC expansion of the c9orf72 gene

(2012) Andrea Calvo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Frontotemporal dementia with psychosis, parkinsonism, visuo-spatial dysfunction, upper motor neuron involvement associated to expansion of C9ORF72: a peculiar phenotype?

(2012) Gianluca Floris et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Lower motor neuron disease caused by a novel FUS/TLS gene frameshift mutation

(2012) Makoto Hara et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Perspectives on molecular targeted therapies and clinical trials for neurodegenerative diseases

(2012) Masahisa Katsuno et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Japanese amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72

(2012) T. Konno et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Cognitive and clinical characteristics of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying a C9orf72 repeat expansion: a population-based cohort study

(2012) Susan Byrne et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a cross-sectional study

(2012) Elisa Majounie et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Mutations in the profilin 1 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2012) Chi-Hong Wu et al.   NATURE

Emerging functions of the VCP/p97 AAA-ATPase in the ubiquitin system

(2012) Hemmo Meyer et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Divergent roles of ALS-linked proteins FUS/TLS and TDP-43 intersect in processing long pre-mRNAs

(2012) Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Phenotype and genotype analysis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with TARDBP gene mutations

(2012) P. Corcia et al.   NEUROLOGY

TDP-43 promotes microRNA biogenesis as a component of the Drosha and Dicer complexes

(2012) Y. Kawahara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Autophagy activators rescue and alleviate pathogenesis of a mouse model with proteinopathies of the TAR DNA-binding protein 43

(2012) I.-F. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Slow development of ALS-like spinal cord pathology in mutant valosin-containing protein gene knock-in mice

(2012) H Z Yin et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Position-dependent FUS-RNA interactions regulate alternative splicing events and transcriptions

(2012) Shinsuke Ishigaki et al.   Scientific Reports

Widespread binding of FUS along nascent RNA regulates alternative splicing in the brain

(2012) Boris Rogelj et al.   Scientific Reports

FUS-SMN Protein Interactions Link the Motor Neuron Diseases ALS and SMA

(2012) Tomohiro Yamazaki et al.   Cell Reports

Pathological heterogeneity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with FUS mutations: two distinct patterns correlating with disease severity and mutation

(2011) Ian R. A. Mackenzie et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Optineurin inclusions occur in a minority of TDP-43 positive ALS and FTLD-TDP cases and are rarely observed in other neurodegenerative disorders

(2011) Tibor Hortobágyi et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

p62 positive, TDP-43 negative, neuronal cytoplasmic and intranuclear inclusions in the cerebellum and hippocampus define the pathology of C9orf72-linked FTLD and MND/ALS

(2011) Safa Al-Sarraj et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

A mutation in sigma-1 receptor causes juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2011) Amr Al-Saif et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Differential Involvement of Optineurin in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis With or Without SOD1 Mutations

(2011) Han-Xiang Deng   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

Association of Long ATXN2 CAG Repeat Sizes With Increased Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2011) Hussein Daoud et al.   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

SQSTM1 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2011) Faisal Fecto   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

Pathological hallmarks of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal lobar degeneration in transgenic mice produced with TDP-43 genomic fragments

(2011) Vivek Swarup et al.   BRAIN

Ataxin-2 intermediate-length polyglutamine expansions in European ALS patients

(2011) T. Lee et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Ataxin-2 repeat-length variation and neurodegeneration

(2011) O. A. Ross et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Novel Types of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Beyond Tau and TDP-43

(2011) Ian R. A. Mackenzie et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Sporadic juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by mutant FUS/TLS: possible association of mental retardation with this mutation

(2011) Satoshi Yamashita et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

A novel exon 2 I27V VCP variant is associated with dissimilar clinical syndromes

(2011) Jonathan D. Rohrer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Novel optineurin mutations in patients with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2011) R. Del Bo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Optineurin mutations in Japanese amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Table 1

(2011) Aritoshi Iida et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Autophagy in Spinal Cord Motor Neurons in Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2011) Shoichi Sasaki   JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

A C9orf72 promoter repeat expansion in a Flanders-Belgian cohort with disorders of the frontotemporal lobar degeneration-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum: a gene identification study

(2011) Ilse Gijselinck et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

RNA targets of TDP-43 identified by UV-CLIP are deregulated in ALS

(2011) Shangxi Xiao et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia

(2011) Han-Xiang Deng et al.   NATURE

Long pre-mRNA depletion and RNA missplicing contribute to neuronal vulnerability from loss of TDP-43

(2011) Magdalini Polymenidou et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Characterizing the RNA targets and position-dependent splicing regulation by TDP-43

(2011) James R Tollervey et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The modulation of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis risk by Ataxin-2 intermediate polyglutamine expansions is a specific effect

(2011) Suzana Gispert et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Expanded ATXN2 CAG repeat size in ALS identifies genetic overlap between ALS and SCA2

(2011) P. Van Damme et al.   NEUROLOGY

Expanded GGGGCC Hexanucleotide Repeat in Noncoding Region of C9ORF72 Causes Chromosome 9p-Linked FTD and ALS

(2011) Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez et al.   NEURON

A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD

(2011) Alan E. Renton et al.   NEURON

Optineurin in neurodegenerative diseases

(2011) Tenshi Osawa et al.   NEUROPATHOLOGY

A yeast functional screen predicts new candidate ALS disease genes

(2011) J. Couthouis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

D-Amino acid oxidase controls motoneuron degeneration through D-serine

(2011) J. Sasabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phosphorylation of the Autophagy Receptor Optineurin Restricts Salmonella Growth

(2011) P. Wild et al.   SCIENCE

FUS Transgenic Rats Develop the Phenotypes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

(2011) Cao Huang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Loss of murine TDP-43 disrupts motor function and plays an essential role in embryogenesis

(2010) Brian C. Kraemer et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

FUS Mutations in Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the Netherlands

(2010) Ewout J. N. Groen et al.   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

PtdIns(3,5)P2and autophagy in mouse models of neurodegeneration

(2010) Cole J. Ferguson et al.   Autophagy

SPATACSIN mutations cause autosomal recessive juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2010) A. Orlacchio et al.   BRAIN

Extensive FUS-Immunoreactive Pathology in Juvenile Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Basophilic Inclusions

(2010) Eric J. Huang et al.   BRAIN PATHOLOGY

ALS-associated fused in sarcoma (FUS) mutations disrupt Transportin-mediated nuclear import

(2010) Dorothee Dormann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Nuclear factor TDP-43 can affect selected microRNA levels

(2010) Emanuele Buratti et al.   FEBS Journal

Transgenic mice expressing mutant forms VCP/p97 recapitulate the full spectrum of IBMPFD including degeneration in muscle, brain and bone

(2010) Sara K. Custer et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Mutant FUS proteins that cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis incorporate into stress granules

(2010) Daryl A. Bosco et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Ubiquilin functions in autophagy and is degraded by chaperone-mediated autophagy

(2010) C. Rothenberg et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Identification of Neuronal RNA Targets of TDP-43-containing Ribonucleoprotein Complexes

(2010) Chantelle F. Sephton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Elevated expression of TDP-43 in the forebrain of mice is sufficient to cause neurological and pathological phenotypes mimicking FTLD-U

(2010) Kuen-Jer Tsai et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

FALS with FUS mutation in Japan, with early onset, rapid progress and basophilic inclusion

(2010) Naoki Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Wild-Type Human TDP-43 Expression Causes TDP-43 Phosphorylation, Mitochondrial Aggregation, Motor Deficits, and Early Mortality in Transgenic Mice

(2010) Y.-F. Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Ataxin-2 intermediate-length polyglutamine expansions are associated with increased risk for ALS

(2010) Andrew C. Elden et al.   NATURE

Mutations of optineurin in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2010) Hirofumi Maruyama et al.   NATURE

Long-term potentiation depends on release of d-serine from astrocytes

(2010) Christian Henneberger et al.   NATURE

Progressive motor weakness in transgenic mice expressing human TDP-43

(2010) Nancy R. Stallings et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Genetic contribution of FUS to frontotemporal lobar degeneration

(2010) T. Van Langenhove et al.   NEUROLOGY

Frameshift and novel mutations in FUS in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and ALS/dementia

(2010) J. Yan et al.   NEUROLOGY

Exome Sequencing Reveals VCP Mutations as a Cause of Familial ALS

(2010) Janel O. Johnson et al.   NEURON

The sigma-1 receptor is enriched in postsynaptic sites of C-terminals in mouse motoneurons. An anatomical and behavioral study

(2010) T.A. Mavlyutov et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

VCP Associated Inclusion Body Myopathy and Paget Disease of Bone Knock-In Mouse Model Exhibits Tissue Pathology Typical of Human Disease

(2010) Mallikarjun Badadani et al.   PLoS One

Tar DNA Binding Protein-43 (TDP-43) Associates with Stress Granules: Analysis of Cultured Cells and Pathological Brain Tissue

(2010) Liqun Liu-Yesucevitz et al.   PLoS One

ALS-associated mutations in TDP-43 increase its stability and promote TDP-43 complexes with FUS/TLS

(2010) S.-C. Ling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deletion of TDP-43 down-regulates Tbc1d1, a gene linked to obesity, and alters body fat metabolism

(2010) P.-M. Chiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is associated with a mutation in D-amino acid oxidase

(2010) J. Mitchell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Altered distributions of Gemini of coiled bodies and mitochondria in motor neurons of TDP-43 transgenic mice

(2010) X. Shan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TDP-43 transgenic mice develop spastic paralysis and neuronal inclusions characteristic of ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

(2010) Hans Wils et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transgenic Rat Model of Neurodegeneration Caused by Mutation in the TDP Gene

(2010) Hongxia Zhou et al.   PLoS Genetics

Abundant FUS-immunoreactive pathology in neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease

(2009) Manuela Neumann et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Multiple system degeneration with basophilic inclusions in Japanese ALS patients with FUS mutation

(2009) Takahisa Tateishi et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

FUS pathology in basophilic inclusion body disease

(2009) David G. Munoz et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Deleterious Variants of FIG4, a Phosphoinositide Phosphatase, in Patients with ALS

(2009) Clement Y. Chow et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A new subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with FUS pathology

(2009) M. Neumann et al.   BRAIN

Rethinking ALS: The FUS about TDP-43

(2009) Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne et al.   CELL

Defective autophagy in neurons and astrocytes from mice deficient in PI(3,5)P2

(2009) Cole J. Ferguson et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Characterization of Alternative Isoforms and Inclusion Body of the TAR DNA-binding Protein-43

(2009) Yoshinori Nishimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

TDP-43 Is a Developmentally Regulated Protein Essential for Early Embryonic Development

(2009) Chantelle F. Sephton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Valosin-containing protein (VCP) is required for autophagy and is disrupted in VCP disease

(2009) Jeong-Sun Ju et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

TDP-43 is recruited to stress granules in conditions of oxidative insult

(2009) Claudia Colombrita et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Frequency of ubiquitin and FUS-positive, TDP-43-negative frontotemporal lobar degeneration

(2009) Harro Seelaar et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

TDP-43 mutant transgenic mice develop features of ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

(2009) I. Wegorzewska et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mutations in FUS, an RNA Processing Protein, Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 6

(2009) C. Vance et al.   SCIENCE

Mutations in the FUS/TLS Gene on Chromosome 16 Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2009) T. J. Kwiatkowski et al.   SCIENCE

TDP-43mutation in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2008) Akio Yokoseki et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

TDP-43A315T mutation in familial motor neuron disease

(2008) Michael A. Gitcho et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

The multifunctional FUS, EWS and TAF15 proto-oncoproteins show cell type-specific expression patterns and involvement in cell spreading and stress response

(2008) Mattias K Andersson et al.   BMC CELL BIOLOGY

TARDBP mutations in individuals with sporadic and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2008) Edor Kabashi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

TDP-43 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2008) J. Sreedharan et al.   SCIENCE

Stress granules: the Tao of RNA triage

(2008) Paul Anderson et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES