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Overview of the ALS/MND Symposium, Sydney 2011

by Dr. Rob Henderson (Neurologist – RBWH MND Clinic Brisbane)

What do we know about the cause of MND?

While MND is rarely recognized as an inherited (familial) disease, the recent focus has been on genetic susceptibility and the interplay between genes and environment. Since the SOD1 gene was discovered 20 years ago, in the last five years the TDP43, FUS and Ubiquitin genes have been linked with familial MND with the protein products ...