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Clinicopathologic features of frontotemporal dementia with progranulin sequence variation.
Neurology - 13 Mar 2007
Spina S, Murrell J R, Huey E D, Wassermann E M, Pietrini P, Baraibar M A, Barbeito A G, Troncoso J C, Vidal R, Ghetti B, Grafman J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-immunoreactive (ub-ir) inclusions (FTLD-U) has been associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and ALS. Recently, mutations in Progranulin (PGRN), predicted to cause premature truncation of the PGRN coding sequence, were found in patients with inherited FTLD-U and ub-ir neuronal intranuclear inclusions (NII). OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical,...
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