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The 1.5-million-euro study, which looked at the so-called 'sporadic' type of ALS, identified a gene called Sunc1 which appears to play a predominant role in regulating ALS. But Chio' said Sunc1 was "probably just the tip of the iceberg." He said the study will now move into a third phase in which 300 new patients will be examined, all of them Italian.