Prevalence of TAU mutations in an Italian clinical series of familial frontotemporal patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-87

  Binetti, Giuliano ^a   Nicosia, Francesca ^a   Benussi, Luisa ^a   Ghidoni, Roberta ^a   Feudatari, Enrica ^a   Barbiero, Laura ^a   Signorini, Simona ^a   Villa, Aldo ^a   Mattioli, Flavia ^b   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Alberici, Antonella ^a  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical series; Frontotemporal dementia; Mutations; Prevalence; Sequencing; TAU gene

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

EID: 0037455980     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01330-7     Document Type: Article

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