Variant Alzheimer's disease with spastic paraparesis and cotton wool plaques is caused by PS-1 mutations that lead to exceptionally high amyloid-β concentrations

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 806-808

  Houlden, Henry ^a,c   Baker, Matt ^c   McGowan, Eileen ^c   Lewis, Patrick ^c   Hutton, Mike ^c   Crook, Richard ^c   Wood, Nicholas W ^a   Kumar Singh, Samir ^d   Geddes, Jennian ^b   Swash, Michael ^b   Scaravilli, Francesco ^a   Holton, Janice L ^a   Lashley, Tammaryn ^a   Tomita, Taisuke ^f   Hashimoto, Tadafumi ⁱ   Verkkoniemi, Auli ^g   Kalimo, Hannu ⁱ   Somer, Mirja ^h   Paetau, Anders ^g   Martin, Jean Jacques ^e   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^d   Golde, Todd ^c   Hardy, John ^c   Haltia, Matti ^g   Revesz, Tamas ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h Vaestoliitto   (Finland)

ⁱ TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FINLAND; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SYNDROME;

EID: 0033762710     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(200011)48:5<806::AID-ANA18>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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