The genetics of frontotemporal dementia

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 89, Issue , 2008, Pages 383-392

  Pickering Brown, Stuart ^a   Hutton, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CDC48 PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MAPT PROTEIN, HUMAN; TAU PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 66149185659     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0072-9752(07)01236-5     Document Type: Review

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