TARDBP and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Mutations in the RBPs, TAR DNA (TARDBP), FUS RNA-binding protein (FUS), Ataxin 2 (ATXN2) as well as EWS RNA-binding proteins (EWSR1) and many more have been shown to greatly influence disease risks, e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FDT) [100].