Screening for C9orf72 Expansion Mutation in Serbian Patients with Early-Onset Dementia.
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord
; 40(5-6): 358-65, 2015.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common cause of early-onset dementia (EOD), characterized by behavioral changes (behavioral variant; bvFTD) or language deficits. A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in a noncoding region of chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) has been proved to be a major cause of both familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or FTD, with or without concomitant motor neuron disease (MND).METHODS:
The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansion in a cohort of 117 Serbian patients with EOD and to report phenotypic features of identified carriers.RESULTS:
We identified 4 of 117 (3.4%) patients with EOD to have C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansions. All patients were classified in the FTD disease spectrum group (8.2%) 3 patients fulfilled the criteria for bvFTD, and 1 patient had FTD-MND. None of the patients with the C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansion fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for language variants of FTD, FTD-progressive supranuclear palsy overlap syndrome, dementia with Lewy bodies or Alzheimer's dementia.CONCLUSION:
In a cohort of consecutive patients with EOD, 3.4% had the C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansion with clinical phenotypes of bvFTD or an overlap of bvFTD and MND.
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Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article