Further employing our established strategy of identification of HML-2 loci generating rec or np9 transcripts by cloning and sequencing their cDNAs [17], we investigated 5 ALS patient (2 motor cortex, 3 spinal cord) and 2 control samples (1 motor cortex and spinal cord each) and a total of 67 rec and 144 np9 cDNA sequences from these samples (Table 3). This evidence concerns the gene CLEC10A and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.