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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Dementia

New Genetic Clues to Frontotemporal Dementia

by Neuroscience News
Study reports a mutation in a single gene that causes hereditary frontotemporal dementia makes it harder for neurons to communicate, leading to neurodegeneration.
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The photo shows neurons (red) with a mutation in the MAPT gene — a gene that makes the protein tau. People with this mutation develop frontotemporal dementia. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that cells carrying the MAPT mutation developed abnormalities in genes that control communication between the brain cells. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to SIDHARTHA MAHALI.

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