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Familial atypical progressive supranuclear palsy associated with homozigosity for the delN296 mutation in the tau gene.
Annals of neurology - 1 Feb 2001
Pastor P, Pastor E, Carnero C, Vela R, García T, Amer G, Tolosa E, Oliva R
Abstract excerpt
Heterozygous missense and splice-site mutations in the tau gene have been previously identified in familial frontotemporal dementia with autosomal dominant inheritance. Here we report a Spanish kindred in which two brothers born from a third-degree consanguineous marriage were both affected with atypical progressive supranuclear palsy. A homozygous deletion at codon 296 (delN296) was identified in one of the...
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