Chromosome 17-linked dementias.

doi:10.1007/s000180050221

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Chromosome 17-linked dementias.

Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Sept 1998

Wilhelmsen K C

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Chromosome 17-linked dementias have been defined by linkage analysis. The most common of these syndromes has been estimated to be the cause of between 2 and 20% of all dementia and has alternately been called frontotemporal dementia, Pick's disease (without Pick bodies) and dementia lacking disti...

Topics

Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
Dementia
Genetic Linkage
Humans
Mutation
Nerve Degeneration
Syndrome
tau Proteins

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