The heritability and genetics of frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1451-1456

  Rohrer, J D ^a   Guerreiro, R ^e,f   Vandrovcova, J ^a   Uphill, J ^b   Reiman, D ^b   Beck, J ^b   Isaacs, A M ^b   Authier, A ^b   Ferrari, R ^c,d   Fox, N C ^a   MacKenzie, I R A ^g   Warren, J D ^a   De Silva, R ^a   Holton, J ^a   Revesz, T ^a   Hardy, J ^c   Mead, S ^b   Rossor, Martin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Prion Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRANULIN; TAU PROTEIN; VALOSIN CONTAINING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA;

EID: 70449365115     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181bf997a     Document Type: Article

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