The Drosophila orthologue of VAPB is VAP33A/CG5014 (herein referred to as VAP) and has been used to develop models for ALS (Chai et al., 2008; Deivasigamani et al., 2014; Moustaqim-Barrette et al., 2014; Ratnaparkhi et al., 2008; Sanhueza et al., 2015). The gene discussed is VAPB; the disease is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.