A new family with frontotemporal dementia with intronic 10+3 splice site mutation in the tau gene: Neuropathology and molecular effects

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 362-373

  Neumann, M ^a   Mittelbronn, M ^b   Simon, P ^b   Vanmassenhove, B ^a   De Silva, R ^c   Lees, A ^c   Klapp, J ^d   Meyermann, R ^b   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Medical Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Frontotemporal dementia; FTDP 17; Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 17; DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRON; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSONISM; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 23044492147     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2005.00629.x     Document Type: Article

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