Evidence of a Founder Effect in Families with Frontotemporal Dementia that Harbor the tau +16 Splice Mutation

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 125 B, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-82

  Pickering Brown, Stuart ^a   Baker, Matt ^b   Bird, Thomas ^c   Trojanowski, John ^d   Lee, Virginia ^d   Morris, Huw ^e   Rossor, Martin ^f   Janssen, John C ^f   Neary, David ^g   Craufurd, David ^h   Richardson, Anna ^g   Snowden, Julie ^g   Hard, John ^b,f,i   Mann, David ^g   Hutton, Mike ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Founder effect; Frontotemporal dementia; Haplotype; MAPT; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FAMILY STUDY; FOUNDER EFFECT; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TAU GENE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0942301376     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.20083     Document Type: Article

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