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A second pedigree with amyloid-less familial Alzheimer's disease harboring an identical mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene (E693delta).
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2015
Kutoku Yumiko, Ohsawa Yutaka, Kuwano Ryozo, Ikeuchi Takeshi, Inoue Haruhisa, Ataka Suzuka, Shimada Hiroyuki, Mori Hiroshi, Sunada Yoshihide
Abstract excerpt
A 59-year-old woman developed early-onset, slowly progressive dementia and spastic paraplegia. positron emission tomography (PET) imaging revealed a large reduction in the level of glucose uptake without amyloid deposition in the cerebral cortex. We identified a homozygous microdeletion within the amyloid β (Aβ) coding sequence in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene (c.2080_2082delGAA, p.E693del) in three...
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