TARDBP and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Lately, TDP-43 has emerged as the major patho-signature protein of the ubiquitinated intracellular inclusions (UBIs) in the diseased brain/ neuron cells of a range of neurodegenerative diseases, two major ones being the frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive, tau- and α-synuclein -negative inclusions (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [13-15].