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Disease-related cortical thinning in presymptomatic granulin mutation carriers
Borrego-Écija, Sergi; Sala-Llonch, Roser; van Swieten, John; Borroni, Barbara; Moreno, Fermín; Masellis, Mario; Tartaglia, Carmela; Graff, CarolineMutations in the granulin gene (GRN) cause familial frontotemporal dementia. Understanding the structural brain changes in presymptomatic GRN carriers would enforce the use of neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis and monitoring. We studied 100 presymptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 94 noncarriers from the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia initiative (GENFI), with MRI structural images. We analyzed 3T MRI...
Impairment of episodic memory in genetic frontotemporal dementia : a GENFI study
Poos, Jackie M.; Russell, Lucy L.; Peakman, Georgia; Bocchetta, Martina; Greaves, Caroline V.; Jiskoot, Lize C.; Ende, Emma L.; Seelaar, HarroIntroduction: We aimed to assess episodic memory in genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT). Methods: The FCSRT was administered in 417 presymptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers (181 chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 [C9orf72], 163 progranulin [GRN], and 73 microtubule-associated protein tau [MAPT]) and 290 controls. Group differences and correlation...
Disease-related cortical thinning in presymptomatic granulin mutation carriers
Borrego-Écija, Sergi; Sala-Llonch, Roser; van Swieten, John; Borroni, Barbara; Moreno, Fermín; Masellis, Mario; Tartaglia, Carmela; Graff, CarolineMutations in the granulin gene (GRN) cause familial frontotemporal dementia. Understanding the structural brain changes in presymptomatic GRN carriers would enforce the use of neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis and monitoring. We studied 100 presymptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 94 noncarriers from the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia initiative (GENFI), with MRI structural images. We analyzed 3T MRI...
Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI...
Russell, Lucy L.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Bocchetta, Martina; Nicholas, Jennifer; Convery, Rhian S.; Moore, Katrina; Cash, David M.; van Swieten, JohnA key symptom of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is difficulty interacting socially with others. Social cognition problems in FTD include impaired emotion processing and theory of mind difficulties, and whilst these have been studied extensively in sporadic FTD, few studies have investigated them in familial FTD. Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) and Faux Pas (FP) recognition tests were used to study social cognit...
Age at symptom onset and death and disease duration in genetic frontotemporal d...
Moore, Katrina M.; Nicholas, Jennifer; Grossman, Murray; McMillan, Corey T.; Irwin, David J.; Massimo, Lauren; Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.Background: Frontotemporal dementia is a heterogenous neurodegenerative disorder, with about a third of cases being genetic. Most of this genetic component is accounted for by mutations in GRN, MAPT, and C9orf72. In this study, we aimed to complement previous phenotypic studies by doing an international study of age at symptom onset, age at death, and disease duration in individuals with mutations in GRN, MAPT,...
Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI...
Russell, Lucy L.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Bocchetta, Martina; Nicholas, Jennifer; Convery, Rhian S.; Moore, Katrina; Cash, David M.; van Swieten, JohnA key symptom of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is difficulty interacting socially with others. Social cognition problems in FTD include impaired emotion processing and theory of mind difficulties, and whilst these have been studied extensively in sporadic FTD, few studies have investigated them in familial FTD. Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) and Faux Pas (FP) recognition tests were used to study social cognit...
White matter hyperintensities are seen only in GRN mutation carriers in the GEN...
Sudre, Carole H.; Bocchetta, Martina; Cash, David; Thomas, David L.; Woollacott, Ione; Dick, Katrina M.; van Swieten, John; Borroni, BarbaraGenetic frontotemporal dementia is most commonly caused by mutations in the progranulin (GRN), microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) and chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) genes. Previous small studies have reported the presence of cerebral white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in genetic FTD but this has not been systematically studied across the different mutations. In this study WMH were assessed...
Genetic Variability in CLU and Its Association with Alzheimer's Disease
Guerreiro, Rita J.; Beck, John; Gibbs, J. Raphael; Santana, Isabel; Rossor, Martin N.; Schott, Jonathan M.; Nalls, Michael A.; Ribeiro, HelenaRecently, two large genome wide association studies in Alzheimer disease (AD) have identified variants in three different genes (CLU, PICALM and CR1) as being associated with the risk of developing AD. The strongest association was reported for an intronic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in CLU. To further characterize this association we have sequenced the coding region of this gene in a total of 495 AD c...