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SUBMITTER: Chew J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4692360 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150514 6239
The major genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a G4C2 repeat expansion in C9ORF72. Efforts to combat neurodegeneration associated with "c9FTD/ALS" are hindered by a lack of animal models recapitulating disease features. We developed a mouse model to mimic both neuropathological and clinical c9FTD/ALS phenotypes. We expressed (G4C2)66 throughout the murine central nervous system by means of somatic brain transgenesis mediated by adeno-associated virus. Bra ...[more]