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  • Another de novo mutation in...
    Bayraktar, Elif; Çiftçi, Vildan; Uysal, Hilmi; Başak, A. Nazlı

    Frontiers in genetics, 08/2023, Letnik: 14
    Journal Article

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons. Most ALS cases are considered sporadic due to the presence of a combination of environmental and complex genetic risk factors, while approximately 10% of cases have a family history. Pathogenic variants in the SOD1 gene are the second most frequent causative factor of genetics-based ALS worldwide, after C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion. The De novo occurrence of pathogenic mutations in ALS-associated genes and its effect on disease progression have been studied previously, especially in the FUS gene. Recent studies have shown that a very small portion of SOD1 cases occurred de novo . Here, we present the first de novo case of the SOD1 His47Arg mutation in a young female patient with mild symptoms and, currently, a slow progression for 7 years.