Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

U.S. Research Homes in on Gene for Gehrig's Disease

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 16th, 1998

Researchers said they had tracked down a gene responsible for a form of the muscle-wasting disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

The gene is somewhere on chromosome 9, the scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania said.

The next step is to map and identify the gene itself, they reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

"These results bring us a major step closer to isolating the gene itself," Dr. David Cornblath, Johns Hopkins, said in a statement.

The researchers studied a Maryland family who have...

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