Research published today in Neuron has identified that mistakes in a gene called VCP can cause an inherited (familial) form of MND.
This is the third gene this year that has been identified as a cause of familial MND which really shows the ‘snowballing’ speed that genetic research is taking. Read about this on our press release: http://bit.ly/dXcjE4
Research paper: Johnson JO et al. Exome Sequencing Reveals VCP Mutations as a Cause of Familial ALS . Neuron (Vol. 68, Issue 5, pp. 857-864)
