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Pathogenesis/genetics of frontotemporal dementia and how it relates to ALS.
Experimental neurology - 1 Dec 2014
Bennion Callister Janis, Pickering-Brown Stuart M
Abstract excerpt
One of the most interesting findings in the field of neurodegeneration in recent years is tfche discovery of a genetic mutation in the C9orf72 gene, the most common mutation found to be causative of sporadic and familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and concomitant FTD-ALS (DeJesus-Hernandez et al., 2011b; Renton et al., 2011). While clinical and molecular data,...
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