Molecular genetics of frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17)

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 111-118

  Kowalska, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; FTDP 17; Neurofibrillary tangles; Parkinsonism; Tau gene; Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL LOSS; CHROMOSOME 17; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GLIOSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TAUOPATHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0037000357     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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