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Screening for C9orf72 Expansion Mutation in Serbian Patients with Early-Onset Dementia.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2015
Mandic-Stojmenovic Gorana, Stefanova Elka, Dobricic Valerija, Novakovic Ivana, Stojkovic Tanja, Jesic Aleksandar, Kostic Vladimir
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common cause of early-onset dementia (EOD), characterized by behavioral changes (behavioral variant; bvFTD) or language deficits. A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in a noncoding region of chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) has been proved to be a major cause of both familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or FTD, with or without...
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