Progranulin mutations and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia phenotypes.
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OBJECTIVE Mutations in the progranulin (PGRN) gene were recently described as the cause of ubiquitin positive frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Clinical and pathological overlap between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and FTD prompted us to screen PGRN in patients with ALS and ALS-FTD. METHODS The PGRN gene was sequenced in 272 cases of sporadic ALS, 40 cases of familial ALS and in 49 patients with ALS-FTD. RESULTS Missense changes were identified in an ALS-FTD patient (p.S120Y) and in a single case of limb onset sporadic ALS (p.T182M), although the pathogenicity of these variants remains unclear. CONCLUSION PGRN mutations are not a common cause of ALS phenotypes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 78 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007