The Enigmatic Role of C9ORF72 in Autophagy
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of motor neurons resulting in a progressive and irreversible muscular paralysis. Advances in large-scale genetics and genomics have revealed intronic hexanucleotide repeat expansions in the gene...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00442/full |