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Familial frontotemporal dementia-associated presenilin-1 c.548G>T mutation causes decreased mRNA expression and reduced presenilin function in knock-in mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 11 Apr 2012
Watanabe Hirotaka, Xia Dan, Kanekiyo Takahisa, Kelleher Raymond J, Shen Jie
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the presenilin-1 (PSEN1) gene are associated with familial Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Interestingly, neuropathological analysis of a Belgian FTD family carrying a PSEN1 c.548G>T mutation confirmed neurodegeneration in the absence of amyloid plaques. To inv...
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