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TMEM106B influences volume of left-sided temporal lobe and interhemispheric structures in the general population.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Sept 2014
Adams Hieab H H, Verhaaren Benjamin F J, Vrooman Henri A, Uitterlinden Andre G, Hofman Albert, van Duijn Cornelia M, van der Lugt Aad, Niessen Wiro J, Vernooij Meike W, Ikram M Arfan
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BACKGROUND: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by brain atrophy of the frontal and anterior temporal lobes. The associated frontotemporal dementia syndromes are clinically heterogeneous, and the pattern of affected cortical regions varies among subtypes. The TMEM106B rs1990622 polymorphism is associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration, but little is known about...
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