SOD1 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Mutations in several genes, including SOD1, C9orf72, TARDBP, and FUS, cause ALS (DeJesus-Hernandez et al., 2011, Kwiatkowski et al., 2009, Rosen et al., 1993, Sreedharan et al., 2008, Vance et al., 2009).