Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration constitute a clinico‐genetic‐neuropathological continuum with marked heterogeneity and large, multimodal cohorts are needed to advance biomarker discovery and precision medicine.
Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) constitute a clinico‐genetic‐neuropathological continuum with marked heterogeneity. Reliable in vivo biomarkers of the disease are lacking. Large, multimodal cohorts are needed to advance biomarker discovery and precision medicine.
This scientific commentary refers to ‘Data-driven modelling of tau pathology reveals distinct progressive supranuclear palsy subtypes’ by Cullinane et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awag131).
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