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Localization of frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism in an Australian kindred to chromosome 17q21-22.
Annals of neurology - 1 Nov 1997
Baker M, Kwok J B, Kucera S, Crook R, Farrer M, Houlden H, Isaacs A, Lincoln S, Onstead L, Hardy J, Wittenberg L, Dodd P, Webb S, Hayward N, Tannenberg T, Andreadis A, Hallupp M, Schofield P, Dark F, Hutton M
Abstract excerpt
An Australian family with autosomal dominant presenile nonspecific dementia was recently described. The disease results in behavioral changes, usually disinhibition, followed by the onset of dementia accompanied occasionally by parkinsonism. Twenty-eight affected individuals were identified with an age of onset of 39 to 66 years (mean, 53 +/- 8.9 years). We mapped the disease locus to an approximately 26-cM...
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