No evidence for tau duplications in frontal temporal dementia families showing genetic linkage to the tau locus in which tau mutations have not been found

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 363, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-101

  Johnson, Janel ^a   Ostojic, Jovanka ^b   Lannfelt, Lars ^b   Glaser, Anna ^b   Basun, Hans ^b   Rogaeva, Ekaterina ^c   Kawarai, Toshitaka ^c   Bruni, Amalia ^d   St George Hyslop, Peter H ^c   Goate, Alison ^e   Pastor, Pau ^e   Chakraverty, Sumi ^e   Norton, Joanne ^e   Morris, John C ^e   Hardy, John ^a   Singleton, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ASL 10   (Italy)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Synuclein; FTDP 17; Genetics; MAPT; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEMENTIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SYNUCLEINS; TAU PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 2542502499     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.03.070     Document Type: Article

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