Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Agree to participate in this research and have signed an informed consent * Be able to understand the objectives and procedures of the study * Be affiliated to French social security or equivalent * Meet one of the criteria below: (i) Be affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) definite, probable or possible (El Escorial criteria) sporadic SALS (no known history in the family) or familial FALS (at least one other member of the family affected), (ii) not being affected by ALS but having a close relative who has or has been diagnosed with ALS and has or is a carrier of a known mutation causing ALS and has consented to a genetic analysis, (iii) Have a motor impairment including the following pathologies: Motor neuropathy, myopathy, Myositis, Spastic paraplegia, Cram / fasciculation syndrome, Chronic inflammatory polyradiculitis, somatization disorder, Anterior spinal artery syndrome, encephalitis, myelitis, Peroneal neuropathy, cervical myelopathy with radiculopathy, spinocerebellar ataxia, Kennedy disease, Spinal atrophy, Hereditary distal motor neuropathy. (iv) be accompanying a person with ALS or other motor impairment that is followed by one of the doctors from the ALS referral center at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital or by a neurologist from the neurophysiology department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. Exclusion Criteria: * Be subjected to a legal protection measure (safeguard of justice, curatorship or guardianship) * Refusing to participate in the study * Whose condition, in the opinion of the doctor, is incompatible with blood draw or participation in research * Being pregnant or breastfeeding