Mapping of a disease locus for familial rapidly progressive frontotemporal dementia to chromosome 17q12-21

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 380-385

  Lannfelt, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chromosome 17; Dementia; Frontotemporal; Linkage; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; EXON; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGE OF ONSET; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLIOSIS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PEDIGREE; SWEDEN; TAU PROTEINS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030757803     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970725)74:4<380::AID-AJMG8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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