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CURRENT NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 243-250Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0268-5
Keywords
Frontotemporal dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; FTLD; C9ORF72; Chromosome 9; Motor neuron disease; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS; Autosomal dominant; X-linked; Genetics; UBQLN2
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- Medical Research Council
- Ipsen Fund
- Welsh Assembly Government
- Motor Neuron Disease Association (MNDA)
- Medical Research Council [G0801418B, G0700943] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0700943] Funding Source: UKRI
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There is a clinical and pathological overlap between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). A number of autosomal-dominant genes have been described that primarily cause ALS or FTLD such as progranulin (GRN), valosin-containing protein (VCP), and TAR DNA-Binding Protein (TARDBP), and for each of these conditions there are a small number of cases with both ALS and FTLD. Two major genes were described in 2011, which cause FTLD and/or ALS within extended kindreds. Ubiquilin2 (UBQLN2) is responsible for X-linked FTLD/ALS. A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p linked FTLD/ALS and is the most common cause of familial ALS accounting for about 40 % of familial cases. Both UBQLN2 and C9ORF72 mutations lead to TDP-43 positive neuropathology, and C9ORF72-positive cases have p62/ubiquitin-positive pathology, which is not stained by TDP-43 antibodies. Ubiquilin2 is one of a family of proteins thought to be important in targeting abnormal proteins for degradation via lysosomal and proteasomal routes. The pathogenic mechanism of the C9ORF72 expansion is unknown but may involve partial haploinsufficiency of C9ORF72 and/or the formations of toxic RNA inclusions. The identification of mutations in these genes represents an important step forward in our understanding of the clinical, pathological, and genetic spectrum of ALS/FTLD diseases.
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