Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 427-435 , March 2008

A novel deletion in progranulin gene is associated with FTDP-17 and CBS

  • Luisa Benussi

      Affiliations

    • NeuroBioGen Lab-Memory Clinic, IRCCS “Centro San Giovanni di Dio-Fatebenefratelli”, via Pilastroni 4, 25125 Brescia, Italy
    • Authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Giuliano Binetti

      Affiliations

    • NeuroBioGen Lab-Memory Clinic, IRCCS “Centro San Giovanni di Dio-Fatebenefratelli”, via Pilastroni 4, 25125 Brescia, Italy
    • Authors contributed equally to this work.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 030 3501709; fax: +39 030 3533513.
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  • Elena Sina

      Affiliations

    • NeuroBioGen Lab-Memory Clinic, IRCCS “Centro San Giovanni di Dio-Fatebenefratelli”, via Pilastroni 4, 25125 Brescia, Italy
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  • Lara Gigola

      Affiliations

    • NeuroBioGen Lab-Memory Clinic, IRCCS “Centro San Giovanni di Dio-Fatebenefratelli”, via Pilastroni 4, 25125 Brescia, Italy
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  • Thomas Bettecken

      Affiliations

    • Center for Applied Genotyping Munich, Max-Planck-Institut of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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  • Thomas Meitinger

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich & GSF, Neuherberg, Germany
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  • Roberta Ghidoni

      Affiliations

    • NeuroBioGen Lab-Memory Clinic, IRCCS “Centro San Giovanni di Dio-Fatebenefratelli”, via Pilastroni 4, 25125 Brescia, Italy

Received 22 September 2006 ,Revised 26 October 2006 ,Accepted 30 October 2006.

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☆ Accession numbers and URLs for data presented herein are as follows: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/; GDB Human Genome Database, http://gdbwww.gdb.org/.

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doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.10.028

Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 427-435 , March 2008

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