Mutations in progranulin cause tau-negative frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17

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Summary

It is demonstrated that in multiple FTD families with significant evidence for linkage to the same region on chromosome 17q21, FTD is caused by mutations in progranulin (PGRN) that are likely to create null alleles and identified mutations in PGRN as a cause of neurodegenerative disease.

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2006-08-24
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Frontotemporal dementia, Tau protein, Dementia, Biology, C9orf72

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