A Link Between Newly Identified Rare Mutations and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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A Link Between Newly Identified Rare Mutations and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (3 of 4)

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This is an image of a tissue sample from an ALS patient's spinal cord showing brown aggregates of a mutant form of the protein Annexin A11.

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B.N. Smith <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2017)

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