Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Abnormal RNA stability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

  • E. M. Tank,
  • C. Figueroa-Romero,
  • L. M. Hinder,
  • K. Bedi,
  • H. C. Archbold,
  • X. Li,
  • K. Weskamp,
  • N. Safren,
  • X. Paez-Colasante,
  • C. Pacut,
  • S. Thumma,
  • M. T. Paulsen,
  • K. Guo,
  • J. Hur,
  • M. Ljungman,
  • E. L. Feldman,
  • S. J. Barmada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05049-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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RNA instability may be a contributing factor in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here the authors carry out genome-wide assessment of RNA synthesis and stability in cells derived from patients with C9orf72 ALS, sporadic ALS and healthy controls.