The founders of The ALS Genius Fund are an ALS family. Most of the time ALS is “sporadic”, which means the person with the disease is the only one in their family. In our case with “familial ALS”, we have an autosomal dominant gene that means each person in our family with the genetic mutation that causes ALS has a 50% chance of passing that gene to each of their children. This GENE affects every GENEration of our family and we will not stop raising funds for ALS Geniuses until there is a cure.