A genome-wide screening and SNPs-to-genes approach to identify novel genetic risk factors associated with frontotemporal dementia

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2904.e13-2904.e26

  Ferrari, Raffaele ^a,b   Grassi, Mario ^c   Salvi, Erika ^d   Borroni, Barbara ^e   Palluzzi, Fernando ^c   Pepe, Daniele ^c   D'Avila, Francesca ^d   Padovani, Alessandro ^e   Archetti, Silvana ^e   Rainero, Innocenzo ^f   Rubino, Elisa ^f   Pinessi, Lorenzo ^f   Benussi, Luisa ^g   Binetti, Giuliano ^g   Ghidoni, Roberta ^g   Galimberti, Daniela ^h   Scarpini, Elio ^h   Serpente, Maria ^h   Rossi, Giacomina ⁱ   Giaccone, Giorgio ⁱ   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ⁱ   Nacmias, Benedetta ^j   Piaceri, Irene ^j   Bagnoli, Silvia ^j   Bruni, Amalia C ^k   Maletta, Raffaele G ^k   Bernardi, Livia ^k   Postiglione, Alfredo ^l   Milan, Graziella ^m   Franceschi, Massimo ⁿ   Puca, Annibale A ^n,o   Novelli, Valeria ^p   Barlassina, Cristina ^d   Glorioso, Nicola ^q   Manunta, Paolo ^r   Singleton, Andrew ^s   Cusi, Daniele ^d,t   Hardy, John ^a   Momeni, Parastoo ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^f CITTÀ DELLA SALUTE E DELLA SCIENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^k Neurogenetic Regional Centre ASPCZ Lamezia Terme   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^m Geriatric Centre Frullone ASL NA/1   (Italy)

ⁿ IRCCS MULTIMEDICA   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^p IRCCS   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^r VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^s NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^t INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Association study; Case control; Frontotemporal dementia; Functional annotation; Genetic risk factors; Population

Indexed keywords

AATK GENE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL MATURATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RFNG GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; AXON; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AATK PROTEIN, HUMAN; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RFNG PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; AXONS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84940961581     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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