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Progranulin gene mutations associated with frontotemporal dementia and progressive non-fluent aphasia.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Nov 2006
Snowden J S, Pickering-Brown S M, Mackenzie I R, Richardson A M T, Varma A, Neary D, Mann D M A
Abstract excerpt
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) refers to a focal, non-Alzheimer form of cerebral degeneration that encompasses the distinct clinical syndromes of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) and semantic dementia. Some patients show tau-based pathological changes and in familial cases mutations have been identified in the microtubule-associated protein tau gene (MAPT) on...
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