Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia.

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Published in Nature on August 21, 2011

Authors

Han-Xiang Deng1, Wenjie Chen, Seong-Tshool Hong, Kym M Boycott, George H Gorrie, Nailah Siddique, Yi Yang, Faisal Fecto, Yong Shi, Hong Zhai, Hujun Jiang, Makito Hirano, Evadnie Rampersaud, Gerard H Jansen, Sandra Donkervoort, Eileen H Bigio, Benjamin R Brooks, Kaouther Ajroud, Robert L Sufit, Jonathan L Haines, Enrico Mugnaini, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Teepu Siddique

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Davee Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurosciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.

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