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A mutant PSEN1 causes dementia with Lewy bodies and variant Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Mar 2005
Ishikawa Atsushi, Piao Yue-Shan, Miyashita Akinori, Kuwano Ryozo, Onodera Osamu, Ohtake Hiroaki, Suzuki Masahiro, Nishizawa Masatoyo, Takahashi Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
We report early-onset parkinsonism and dementia of 18 years' duration in a 52-year-old man whose grandfather and father had suffered from a similar neurological disease. In this patient, we found neuronal loss in various brain regions including the substantia nigra and cerebral cortex, Lewy bodies, cotton wool plaques, corticospinal tract degeneration, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and a novel three-base pair...
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