期刊
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 59, 期 9, 页码 5673-5694出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-022-02934-z
关键词
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Frontotemporal Dementia; Oligogenic Inheritance; Mechanistic Pathways; Novel Therapeutics
资金
- Malaviya Postdoctoral Fellowship by Institute of Eminence (IoE), Banaras Hindu University (BHU) from Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India (GOI)
- IoE, BHU
- SERB-Power Fellowship by Science and Engineering Research Board, GOI
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two diseases that primarily affect different areas of the brain, and they share similarities in clinical, genetic, and pathological aspects. Recent research has identified new genes associated with these diseases, and these genes interact with known pathogenic genes, potentially affecting multiple diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Ataxia, and Parkinsonism. Furthermore, there have been advancements in understanding the genotype-phenotype correlations and in clinical trials for stem cell and gene-based therapies.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) primarily affect the motor and frontotemporal areas of the brain, respectively. These disorders share clinical, genetic, and pathological similarities, and approximately 10-15% of ALS-FTD cases are considered to be multisystemic. ALS-FTD overlaps have been linked to families carrying an expansion in the intron of C9orf72 along with inclusions of TDP-43 in the brain. Other overlapping genes (VCP, FUS, SQSTM1, TBK1, CHCHD10) are also involved in similar functions that include RNA processing, autophagy, proteasome response, protein aggregation, and intracellular trafficking. Recent advances in genome sequencing have identified new genes that are involved in these disorders (TBK1, CCNF, GLT8D1, KIF5A, NEK1, C21orf2, TBP, CTSF, MFSD8, DNAJC7). Additional risk factors and modifiers have been also identified in genome-wide association studies and array-based studies. However, the newly identified genes show higher disease frequencies in combination with known genes that are implicated in pathogenesis, thus indicating probable digenetic/polygenic inheritance models, along with epistatic interactions. Studies suggest that these genes play a pleiotropic effect on ALS-FTD and other diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Ataxia, and Parkinsonism. Besides, there have been numerous improvements in the genotype-phenotype correlations as well as clinical trials on stem cell and gene-based therapies. This review discusses the possible genetic models of ALS and FTD, the latest therapeutics, and signaling pathways involved in ALS-FTD.
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