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Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17--the first Polish family.
European journal of neurology - 1 Mar 2011
Narożańska E, Jasińska-Myga B, Sitek E J, Robowski P, Brockhuis B, Lass P, Dubaniewicz M, Wieczorek D, Baker M, Rademakers R, Wszolek Z K, Sławek J
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BACKGROUND: Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) is a neurodegenerative disorder with various clinical phenotypes. We present the first Central-Eastern European family (Gdansk Family) with FTDP-17 because of a P301L mutation in microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT). METHODS: We have studied a family consisting of 82 family members, 39 of whom were genetically evaluated....
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