Characterization of frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with the GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72

Numerous kindreds with familial frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have been linked to chromosome 9, and an expansion of the GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in the non-coding region of chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 has recently been identified as the pathogenic mechanism....

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Main Authors: Boeve, Bradley F., Boylan, Kevin B., Graff-Radford, Neill R., DeJesus-Hernandez, Mariely, Knopman, David S., Pedraza, Otto, Vemuri, Prashanthi, Jones, David, Lowe, Val, Murray, Melissa E., Dickson, Dennis W., Josephs, Keith A., Rush, Beth K., Machulda, Mary M., Fields, Julie A., Ferman, Tanis J., Baker, Matthew, Rutherford, Nicola J., Adamson, Jennifer, Wszolek, Zbigniew K., Adeli, Anahita, Savica, Rodolfo, Boot, Brendon, Kuntz, Karen M., Gavrilova, Ralitza, Reeves, Andrew, Whitwell, Jennifer, Kantarci, Kejal, Jack, Clifford R., Parisi, Joseph E., Lucas, John A., Petersen, Ronald C., Rademakers, Rosa
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3286335/