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Analyses MAPT, GRN, and C9orf72 mutations in Chinese patients with frontotemporal dementia.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Oct 2016
Tang Min, Gu Xiaohua, Wei Jingya, Jiao Bin, Zhou Lin, Zhou Yafang, Weng Ling, Yan Xinxiang, Tang Beisha, Xu Jun, Shen Lu
Abstract excerpt
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder, including behavior behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD), semantic dementia, progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), FTD-parkinsonism, and FTD-motor neuron disease. To date, there are at least 8 causative genes identified in patients with FTD. Among them, variants in the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT), GRN, and chromosome 9...
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