Progranulin and tau gene mutations both as cause for dementia: 17q21 finally defined

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-19

  Rosenberg, Roger N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROGRANULIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; VALINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APATHY; APHASIA; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR; CHROMOSOME 17Q; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CYTOPLASM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EDITORIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARKINSONISM; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MUTATION; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 33846043926     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.1.18     Document Type: Editorial

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