While ALS is the most common motor neuron disease, we also treat all other forms, including: 1  PLS (Primary Lateral Sclerosis), affecting the upper motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. 2  PMA (Primary Muscular Atrophy), affecting the lower motor neurons from the spine to the muscle.
Deletion Mutation and DNA. A deletion mutation occurs when part of a DNA molecule is not copied during DNA replication. This uncopied part can be as small as a single nucleotide or as much as an entire chromosome.The loss of this DNA during replication can lead to a genetic disease.eletion Mutation and DNA. A deletion mutation occurs when part of a DNA molecule is not copied during DNA replication. This uncopied part can be as small as a single nucleotide or as much as an entire chromosome.
This image shows an example of missense mutation. One of the nucleotides (adenine) is replaced by another nucleotide (cytosine) in the DNA sequence. This results in an incorrect amino acid (proline) being incorporated into the protein sequence.In genetics, a missense mutation (a type of nonsynonymous substitution) is a point mutation in which a single nucleotide change results in a codon that codes for a different amino acid.hen an amino acid may be encoded by more than one codon (so-called degenerate coding) a mutation in a codon may not produce any change in translation; this would be a silent mutation (a type of synonymous substitution, which is not always silent) and not a missense mutation.