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Diagnosis, management and therapeutic trials are hampered by a lack of informative biomarkers. Troponins are components of skeletal and cardiac muscles. Acute elevation of cardiac isoforms of troponin I and T in serum indicates myocardial injury. Case reports suggested that serum levels of cardiac troponin T, but not cardiac troponin I are chronically elevated in myotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neuromuscular disorders. Using standard clinical laboratory methodologies, we studied serum troponin levels in a multicentric cross-sectional cohort of 75 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients and 30 Alzheimer\u2019s disease controls and 29 healthy controls (DESCRIBE-ALS cohort) and in a real-world cohort of 179 consecutive patients from our amyotrophic lateral sclerosis clinic at the University Hospital Bonn. We found that serum cardiac troponin T is elevated in &amp;gt;60% of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, while cardiac troponin I is always normal. Serum cardiac troponin T levels increase over time and correlate with disease severity as measured with the revised Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale score. There was no correlation with the phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain levels in the cerebrospinal fluid. We propose that cardiac troponin T elevations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are of non-cardiac origin and may serve as a proxy of lower motor neuron or skeletal muscle involvement. They potentially help to stratify patients according to lower motoneuron involvement. Further research will determine the biological origin of the cardiac troponin T elevation and its validity as a diagnostic and\/or prognostic marker. 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