Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Gene That Is Common Cause of ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia
submitted by healthbleep.com
on 04/18/14
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North American investigators led by Dr. Rosa Rademakers, Ph.D. and other neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida have found a genetic abnormality they say is the most common cause of two different but related forms of neurodegenerative disease — frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
