The recent discovery of pathological TDP-43 in both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitinated inclusions confirms that these are closely related conditions within a new biochemical class of neurodegenerative disease, the TDP-43 proteinopathies.
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