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Progranulin mutations in primary progressive aphasia: the PPA1 and PPA3 families.
Archives of neurology - 1 Jan 2007
Mesulam Marsel, Johnson Nancy, Krefft Thomas A, Gass Jennifer M, Cannon Ashley D, Adamson Jennifer L, Bigio Eileen H, Weintraub Sandra, Dickson Dennis W, Hutton Michael L, Graff-Radford Neill R
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BACKGROUND: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a language-based dementia characterized by fluent or nonfluent language disorder as its principal feature. OBJECTIVE: To describe progranulin gene mutations in 2 families with PPA. DESIGN: Report of affected families. SETTING: Academic research. PATIENTS: Two families, PPA1 and PPA3, were studied. Genomic DNA was isolated from 3 of 4 siblings in PPA1, from all 3...
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