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Familial aggregation in frontotemporal dementia

DOI

183

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0

References

1998

Year

M Stevens, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Wouter Kamphorst, Peter de Knijff, Peter Heutink, Willem A. van Gool, Philip Scheltens, Rivka Ravid, B. A. Oostra, Martinus F. Niermeijer,
Neurology

Abstract

This study documents the importance of genetic factors in a proportion of FTD patients with the age at onset of dementia in first-degree relatives being 11 years earlier than in the general population.