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Real-Time Fluorescent Measurement of Synaptic Functions in Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Published on: July 16, 2021
No association between DNA repair gene XRCC1 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Fang Fang1, David M Umbach, Zongli Xu
1Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. fang.fang@ki.se
Abstract:
Reduced DNA repair capacity may play a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) etiology. We examined the association between ALS risk and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene x-ray repair complementing defective repair in Chinese hamster cells 1 (XRCC1) utilizing data from a case-control study and 2 genome-wide association studies (the study of Irish Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) genome-wide study in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Neurologically Normal Controls). Our results did not show any differences in the frequency of XRCC1 gene polymorphisms between ALS patients and controls free of any neurological disease.
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