Inherited frontotemporal dementia in nine British families associated with intronic mutations in the tau gene

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 732-751

  Pickering Brown, S M ^a   Richardson, A M T ^b   Snowden, J S ^b   McDonagh, A M ^a   Burns, A ^c   Braude, W ^e   Baker, M ^g   Liu, W K ^g   Yen, S H ^g   Hardy, J ^g   Hutton, M ^g   Davies, Y ^f   Allsop, D ^f   Craufurd, D ^d   Neary, D ^b   Mann, D M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e District General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial frontotemporal dementia; Neuropsychology; Tau biochemistry; Tau gene mutations; Tau pathology

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APATHY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRON; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; RNA SPLICING; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036205905     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf069     Document Type: Article

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