Search for a mutation in the tau gene in a Swiss family with frontotemporal dementia

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 330-335

  Savioz, Armand ^a   Kövari, Enikö ^a   Anastasiu, Radu ^b   Rossier, Colette ^a   Saini, Krishan ^b   Bouras, Constantin ^a   Leuba, Geneviève ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FTD family; FTDP 17 mutation; Mutation exclusion study; Tau gene

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 17; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0342751263     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7263     Document Type: Article

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