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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.
In the vast majority of ALS cases, no specific cause of the disease can be identified. In about 5 percent of ALS cases, though, the disease is inherited. These familial cases are due to mutations in a number of genes.At this time, researchers have only been able to identify about one-third of the gene mutations responsible for ALS.ost cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are not familial and do not run in families. In a minority of ALS cases, though, the disease may be inherited and occur in multiple family members.