VCP and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Mutations in VCP are known to cause neuromuscular diseases such as inclusion body myopathy with Paget’s disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD) [4] and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [5], and also striated muscle diseases such as myofibrillar myopathies (MFMs) [6,7].