Baseline characteristics of study population.

Abbreviations: PMA = progressive muscular atrophy, ALS = amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, N = number, y = years, and CI = 95% confidence interval. Disease duration is defined as the interval between age at onset and age at death, or between age at onset and age last known to be alive. Patients with sporadic PMA are more likely to be male (p-value 0.001), to have a lower age at onset (p-value 0.010), to be alive (p-value <0.001), and to have a longer disease duration than patients with sporadic ALS (p-value <0.001).