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Novel progranulin variants do not disrupt progranulin secretion and cleavage.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Nov 2013
Karch Celeste M, Jeng Amanda T, Skorupa Tara, Cruchaga Carlos, Goate Alison M
Abstract excerpt
A subset of frontotemporal dementia cases are neuropathologically defined by tau-negative, TAR DNA-binding protein-43, and ubiquitin-positive inclusions in the brain and are associated with mutations in the progranulin gene (GRN). Deep sequencing of families exhibiting late-onset dementia revealed several novel variants in GRN. Because of the small size of these families and limited availability of samples, it...
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