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Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17.
Folia neuropathologica - 1 Jan 2005
Wszołek Zbigniew K, Słowiński Jerzy, Golan Maciej, Dickson Dennis W
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Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the MAPT gene which encodes the microtubule-associated protein tau. This hereditary tauopathy is a rare clinical syndrome, affecting approximately two hundred kindreds and about six hundred individuals bearing thirty nine known MAPT mutations. The disorder is...
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