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Links Between the C9orf72 Repeat Expansion and Psychiatric Symptoms.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 26 Nov 2019
Silverman Hannah E, Goldman Jill S, Huey Edward D
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To present recent findings on the links between the C9orf72 expansion and psychiatric impairment. RECENT FINDINGS: Repeat hexanucleotide expansions in the C9orf72 gene are a cause of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the mixed phenotype, FTD-ALS. Symptomatic expansion carriers display higher rates of psychotic and other psychiatric symptoms than...
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