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SUBMITTER: van Doormaal PT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496711 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Neurobiology of aging 20140419 10
Sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a multifactorial disease of environmental and genetic origin. In a previous large multicenter genome wide study, common genetic variation in the Kinesin-Associated Protein 3 (KIFAP3) gene (rs1541160) was reported to have a significant effect on survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. However, this could not be replicated in 3 smaller independent cohorts. We conducted a large multicenter multivariate survival analysis (n = 2362) on the effect ...[more]