Metadata

Name Motor neuron disease (MND)
Category Neurological
Sex
Adult Yes
UUID d274dfbb-ab34-416a-87a5-50e630afcfff
Definition A neurodegenerative disease that is located in the motor neurones.

Ontologies

Disease Ontology (DOID) DOID_231
GWAS Catalogue EFO_0000253
MeSH D000690
SNOMED-CT 37340000
FinnGen G6_ALS

Key Summary Statistics

Cases from any source

Total 670
Female (%) 295 (44%)
Male (%) 375 (56%)

Year first recorded

MND year of first event

Cases linked in all UK Biobank sources

Cross-source concordance

Vertical bars correspond to number of cases per source/intersection; horizontal bars to left correspond to total number of cases per source.

Cross-sourced MND cases

Incidence & prevalence

Sex and age-stratified incidence and prevalence of MND

Baseline prevalence stratified by sex

Female 1.53 (0.7,2.37)
Male 3.22 (1.9,4.54)

Incidence stratified by sex

Female 0.51 (0.32,0.69)
Male 0.93 (0.65,1.2)

Incidence stratified by age

Ages 40-44 0.1 (-0.1,0.3)
Ages 45-49 0.37 (0.05,0.7)
Ages 50-54 0.38 (0.08,0.68)
Ages 55-59 0.57 (0.23,0.91)
Ages 60-64 0.65 (0.34,0.96)
Ages 65-69 1.66 (1.09,2.22)

Period prevalence

Methods

Comparison with general population

Sex-standardised prevalence from CALIBER study (Kuan et al. 2019)

CALIBER and UKB MND prevalence comparison for multiple age groups

Population Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
UK Biobank 1 (1,3) 6 (5,9) 8 (6,10)
CALIBER 2 (2,3) 4 (4,5) 10 (9,11)

Stratified by age and Townsend deprivation status

Deprivation status Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
Least deprived 3(0,10) 2(0,7) 7(4,13)
Low 1(0,7) 6(2,12) 9(5,14)
Medium 0(NaN,NaN) 5(2,10) 8(4,13)
High 2(0,8) 8(3,14) 10(6,16)
Most deprived 0(NaN,NaN) 11(6,19) 5(2,9)

Stratified by age and country

Country Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
England 2(0,4) 6(4,9) 8(6,10)
Scotland 0(NaN,NaN) 6(2,13) 7(3,14)
Wales 3(0,17) 8(2,20) 6(2,15)

Definition

UK Biobank field id Description Code Value
20002 Non-cancer illness code, self-reported 1259 motor neurone disease
41202 Diagnoses - main ICD10 G12.2 Motor neuron disease
41204 Diagnoses - secondary ICD10 G12.2 Motor neuron disease
40001 Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10 G12.2 Motor neuron disease
40002 Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10 G12.2 Motor neuron disease
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42040 GP clinical event records F152000 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
42040 GP clinical event records F152100 Progressive muscular atrophy
42040 GP clinical event records F152111 Duchenne Aran muscular atrophy
42040 GP clinical event records F152200 Progressive bulbar palsy
42040 GP clinical event records F152300 Pseudobulbar palsy
42040 GP clinical event records F152400 Primary lateral sclerosis
42040 GP clinical event records F152.00 Motor neurone disease
42040 GP clinical event records F152z00 Motor neurone disease NOS
42040 GP clinical event records F15..00 Anterior horn cell disease
42040 GP clinical event records F15y.00 Other anterior horn cell disease
42040 GP clinical event records F15z.00 Anterior horn cell disease NOS
42040 GP clinical event records XaMEh Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis drugs Band 1