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Main involved components in the genesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Each individual has a determined prenatal genetic load and during life accumulates a number of environmental exposures and some degree of age-related cell damage. Regardless the particular “weight” of each one of these components, ALS would develop when the sum of them reach a certain threshold. (A) Healthy subject, (B) sporadic ALS.
