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Rapidly progressive frontotemporal dementia and bulbar amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Portuguese patients with C9orf72 mutation.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration - 1 Jan 2013
Chester Catarina, de Carvalho Mamede, Miltenberger Gabriel, Pereira Sónia, Dillen Lubina, van der Zee Julie, van Broeckhoven Christine, de Mendonça Alexandre
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) form a spectrum of clinically, pathologically, and genetically overlapping disorders, as confirmed by the recent report that it can be caused by a hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72. One hundred and fourteen Portuguese cases diagnosed as probable or possible familial FTLD, as part of the EOD consortium study, and nine further...
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