Explorative genetic study of UBQLN2 and PFN1 in an extended Flanders-Belgian cohort of frontotemporal lobar degeneration patients

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1711.e1-1711.e5

  Dillen, Lubina ^a,b   Van Langenhove, Tim ^a,b,c   Engelborghs, Sebastiaan ^b,d   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^e,f   Sarafov, Stayko ^g   Tournev, Ivailo ^g,h   Merlin, Celine ^a,b   Cras, Patrick ^b,c   Vandenberghe, Rik ^e,f   De Deyn, Peter P ^b,d,i   Jordanova, Albena ^a,b,g   Cruts, Marc ^a,b   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^a,b   Van der Zee, Julie ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d Hospital Network Antwerp Middelheim and Hoge Beuken   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^h NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ALS; FTLD; PFN1; UBQLN2

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; PROLINE; SERINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BULGARIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FLANDERS BELGIAN; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTHER; PFN1 GENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SON; UBQLN2 GENE;

EID: 84875279430     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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