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SUBMITTER: Yeh TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4022748 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neurobiology of aging 20121011 4
Parkinsonism might precede, coincide, or follow the behavioral or language-predominant cognitive impairments characteristic of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In this study, we analyze the hexanucleotide repeat expansions within C9orf72 gene in various parkinsonian syndromes because it is a recently identified important genetic cause of FTD. The expanded hexanucleotide repeat is only identified in our familial FTD patients but not in patients with predominant parkinsonism. The lack of association ...[more]