Frontotemporal dementia: from Mendelian genetics towards genome wide association studies.

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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration is the most common cause of dementia of non-Alzheimer's type worldwide. It manifests, clinically, with behavioural changes and language impairment and is pathologically associated with tau- or ubiquitin-positive inclusions detected in neurons and glial cells of the frontal and temporal lobes in the brain. Genetic variations in the microtubule-associated protein tau and...

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