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Clinical and neuropathologic heterogeneity of c9FTD/ALS associated with hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Dec 2011
Murray Melissa E, DeJesus-Hernandez Mariely, Rutherford Nicola J, Baker Matt, Duara Ranjan, Graff-Radford Neill R, Wszolek Zbigniew K, Ferman Tanis J, Josephs Keith A, Boylan Kevin B, Rademakers Rosa, Dickson Dennis W
Abstract excerpt
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are part of a disease spectrum associated with TDP-43 pathology. Strong evidence supporting this is the existence of kindreds with family members affected by FTD, ALS or mixed features of FTD and ALS, referred to as FTD-MND. Some of these families have linkage to chromosome 9, with hexanucleotide expansion mutation in a noncoding region of...
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