Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia

1. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia is associated with mosaic variants in disease-associated genes in humans.

   ReviewSubset of sporadic patients; pathogenicity at low allele frequencies remains unclear

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