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The SOD1 mouse develops an ALS-like disease that researchers hope overlaps enough with human ALS that mouse responses to treatment might predict human responses. SOD1 gene mutations, however, cause a familial (inherited) form of human ALS thatâs present in only 1 percent to 3 percent of ALS cases. For some 90 percent of patients, the disease isnât familial. Its onset is unpredictable (sporadic) and the cause is unknown.
What we do know is that in about 2 in 10 families with ALS, the disease is caused by a change in the superoxide dismutase, or SOD1, gene. Genetic changes in genes such as FUS and TDP-43 are the cause of ALS in an even smaller number of families with ALS, each accounting for approximately 1 in 20-25 families.