Familial frontotemporal dementia with neuronal intranuclear inclusions is not a polyglutamine expansion disease
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many cases of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are familial, often with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. Some are due to a mutation in the tau- encoding gene, on chromosome 17, and show an accumulation of abnormal tau in br...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-08-01
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Series: | BMC Neurology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/6/32 |