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These challenges are amplified in late-onset diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), where obscured inheritance patterns limit gene discovery opportunities and can confound clinical risk assessment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>We evaluated whether identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis can uncover cryptic relatedness and mitigate the impact of incomplete penetrance on disease gene mapping and clinical interpretation. Genome-wide IBD inference was performed in an integrated cross-continent cohort of 3,524 individuals of European ancestry spanning the ALS-FTD neurodegenerative spectrum.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>IBD identified 793 pairs of 1st-6th degree relatives (siblings to second cousins once removed), of which 31.5% were previously unrecognised and 15.8% had differing clinical diagnoses. Among individuals recorded as \u201csporadic\u201d, 5.5% of ALS and 15.9% of FTD were genetically related to another affected individual in the cohort, demonstrating that reduced penetrance masks a substantial proportion of heritable disease. Affected individuals with known ALS\/FTD-associated genetic variants had balanced male-to-female ratios, irrespective of reported family history or IBD-inferred relatedness, whereas those without an identified disease-linked genetic variant retained the expected male predominance in ALS\/FTD cohorts. IBD analysis identified multiple cross-continent founder networks for known ALS disease genes, including SOD1 and C9orf72, and created 73 new IBD-defined pedigrees from apparently unrelated probands, providing a framework for disease variant discovery in otherwise underpowered families. Using SOD1 mutation-positive families as a positive-control framework, we demonstrated that IBD-based pedigree expansion retained the known disease locus in distant relatives while reducing genome-wide candidate regions, supporting its application to unresolved ALS\/FTD pedigrees. In an IBD-identified extended pedigree comprising five affected individuals, genome-wide variant filtering identified three rare variants within a chromosome 13q21.33 candidate locus shared IBD by four individuals and supported by multipoint linkage analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>IBD-based detection of cryptic relatedness reveals genetic links between familial and apparent sporadic neurodegenerative disease, helping to resolve penetrance-related inheritance misclassification. By reconstructing extended pedigrees using IBD, this approach strengthens gene discovery and supporting variant pathogenicity while providing clinicians with clearer context for inherited risk and genetic counselling.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/brain\/awag326","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,25]],"date-time":"2026-09-25T17:21:23Z","timestamp":1790356883000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Identity-by-descent to resolve reduced penetrance and advance gene discovery in neurodegenerative disease"],"prefix":"10.1093","author":[{"given":"Lyndal","family":"Henden","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Macquarie University Brain Institute and Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University , Sydney, NSW 2109 ,","place":["Australia"]},{"name":"Macquarie University Motor Neuron Disease Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University , Sydney, NSW 2109 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