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Identification of the PS1 Thr147Ile Variant in a Family with Very Early Onset Dementia and Expressive Aphasia.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Jan 2015
Denvir James, Neitch Shirley, Fan Jun, Niles Richard M, Boskovic Goran, Schreurs Bernard G, Primerano Donald A, Alkon Daniel L
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BACKGROUND: Early onset dementias have variable clinical presentations and are often difficult to diagnose. We established a family pedigree that demonstrated consistent recurrence of very early onset dementia in successive generations. OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: In order to refine the diagnosis in this family, we sequenced the exomes of two affected family members and relied on discrete filtering to identify disease...
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