That mutations in the SOD1 enzyme underlie inherited forms of a motor neuron disease known as ALS is clear. But the question of what the consequences of such mutations are seems to have more than one answer.
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Polymenidou, M., Cleveland, D. The curious ways of ALS. Nature 454, 284–285 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454284a
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