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Mutations in the tau gene that cause an increase in three repeat tau and frontotemporal dementia
3 Mar 2003
Abstract excerpt
The majority of cases with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have no tau deposition in the brain, yet mutations in the tau gene lead to a similar clinical phenotype with insoluble tau depositing in neuropathological lesions. We report two tau gene mutations at positions +19 and +29, in the intronic sequences immediately following the stem loop structure in exon 10, which segregate with FTD. Exon-trapping experiments...
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