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C9orf72 repeat expansions that cause frontotemporal dementia are detectable among patients with psychosis.
Psychiatry research - 30 Jan 2016
Watson Annie, Pribadi Mochtar, Chowdari Kodavali, Clifton Sue, Joel Wood, Miller Bruce L, Coppola Giovanni, Nimgaonkar Vishwajit
Abstract excerpt
A pathologic hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 causes frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Behavioral abnormalities can also occur among mutation carriers with FTD, but it is uncertain whether such mutations occur among persons with psychoses per se. Among participants in a genetic study of psychoses (N=739), two pairs of related individuals had C9orf72 expansions, of...
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