Two brothers with frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism with an N279K mutation of the tau gene

Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1787-1795

  Arima, Kunimasa ^a,b   Kowalska, A ^c   Hasegawa, M ^d   Mukoyama, M ^c   Watanabe, R ^c   Kawai, M ^b   Takahashi, K ^c   Iwatsubo, T ^d   Tabira, T ^c   Sunohara, N ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Center Hospital for Mental   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Mutation; Parkinsonism; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROTUBULE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034624917     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.54.9.1787     Document Type: Article

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