ANG and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: ANG, another ALS-linked gene, plays roles in tumor angiogenesis (Pavlov and Badet 2001; Kishimoto et al. 2005), processing of ribosomal RNA (Tsuji et al. 2005), and neuroprotection (Kieran et al. 2008; Sebastia et al. 2009).