Genetic analysis in patients with familial and sporadic frontotemporal dementia: Two tau mutations in only familial cases and no association with apolipoprotein ε4

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 387-392

  Kowalska, Anna ^a,d   Asada, Takashi ^b   Arima, Kunimasa ^b   Kumakiri, Chikara ^c   Kozubski, Wojciech ^e   Takahashi, Keikichi ^a   Tabira, Takeshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

^e POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein E; Frontotemporal dementia; Mutation; Tau gene

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN EPSILON4; DNA; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; DEMENTIA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0035741925     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000051285     Document Type: Article

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