Association between tau H2 haplotype and age at onset in frontotemporal dementia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1419-1422

  Borroni, Barbara ^a   Yancopoulou, Despina ^a   Tsutsui, Miho ^a   Padovani, Alessandro ^b   Sawcer, Stephen J ^a   Hodges, John R ^a   Spillantini, Maria Grazia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Brain Repair Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; GENE PRODUCT; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMENTIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 15244363203     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.62.9.1419     Document Type: Article

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