Global variation in prevalence and incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Xu, T Liu, L Liu, X Yao, L Chen, D Fan, S Zhan… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a global disease, which adversely affects
the life quality of patients and significantly increases the burden of families and society. We …

The role of sex and sex hormones in neurodegenerative diseases

E Vegeto, A Villa, S Della Torre, V Crippa… - Endocrine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are a wide class of disorders of the central nervous
system (CNS) with unknown etiology. Several factors were hypothesized to be involved in …

Spectrum and frequency of genetic variants in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

WP Ruf, M Boros, A Freischmidt, D Brenner… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Therapy of motoneuron diseases entered a new phase with the use of intrathecal antisense
oligonucleotide therapies treating patients with specific gene mutations predominantly in the …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics and sex in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): is there a link?

F Trojsi, G D'Alvano, S Bonavita… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no known
cure. Approximately 90% of ALS cases are sporadic, although multiple genetic risk factors …

Clinical and genetic features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with C9orf72 mutations

M Wiesenfarth, K Günther, K Müller… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
An expansion of the GGGGCC hexanucleotide in the non-coding region of C9orf72
represents the most common cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The objective …

Multifaceted genes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia

R Ranganathan, S Haque, K Coley… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia are two progressive, adult onset
neurodegenerative diseases, caused by the cell death of motor neurons in the motor cortex …

Brain–body mechanisms contribute to sexual dimorphism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SM Jacob, S Lee, SH Kim, KA Sharkey… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form of human motor neuron
disease. It is characterized by the progressive degeneration of upper and lower motor …

[HTML][HTML] Amygdala pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis

RH Chipika, F Christidi, E Finegan, SLH Shing… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Elsevier
Temporal lobe studies in motor neuron disease overwhelmingly focus on white matter
alterations and cortical grey matter atrophy. Reports on amygdala involvement are …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of genotype–phenotype correlation across cohorts having causal mutations of different genes in ALS

O Connolly, L Le Gall, G McCluskey… - Journal of Personalized …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease characterised by
progressive deterioration of upper and lower motor neurons that eventually culminates in …

Sex differences in neurodegeneration: the role of the immune system in humans

C Lopez-Lee, L Kodama, L Gan - Biological Psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
Growing evidence supports significant involvement of immune dysfunction in the etiology of
neurodegenerative diseases, several of which also display prominent sex differences across …