Familial non-specific dementia maps to chromosome 3

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A significant minority of degenerative dementias lack distinctive inclusion bodies, plagues or tangles on pathological examination. Half of these cases have a positive family history of dementia. We have studied the largest published family with such a dementia and mapped the disease locus to a 12 cM region of chromosome 3 spanning the centromere. Haplotype analysis demonstrates a common region shared between all...

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