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• The ALS Association Sponsors C9orf72 Symposium at International Neuroscience Meeting

  As part of the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience taking place this week and next in New Orleans, The ALS Association will be hosting a symposium titled “ALS, FTD and New Discoveries in C9orf72.”
• New Report to the President Suggests Acceleration of Drug Approvals for People with ALS
• Recent Study Finds Connection Between ALS and Spinal Muscular Atrophy

  A study published in the September 28 edition of Cell Reports indicates that ALS and another disease involving motor neurons called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are linked on the molecular level.
• The ALS Association Congratulates Chair of its Scientific Advisory Board for Distinguished Award

  Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., of Columbia University Medical Center, will receive the 2012 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science later this month.
• Researchers Find Genetic Region Influencing Age at Which People Develop ALS

  People with ALS who have a specific genetic signature within a region on chromosome 1 have an age of onset that is approximately two-and-a-half years earlier than those without it.

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