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Frontotemporal dementia, Parkinsonism and lower motor neuron involvement in a patient with C9ORF72 expansion.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration - 1 Jan 2013
Luigetti Marco, Quaranta Davide, Conte Amelia, Piccininni Chiara, Lattante Serena, Romano Angela, Silvestri Gabriella, Zollino Marcella, Sabatelli Mario
Abstract excerpt
It has been recently reported that a large proportion of patients with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and/or frontotemporal dementia (FTD) carries the hexanucleotide (GGGGCC) repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72. We describe a patient with a complex phenotype characterized by behavioural variant of FTD, Parkinsonism and ALS with predominant lower motor neuron involvement in...
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