Erkoyun, HU;
Van der Lee, SJ;
Nijmeijer, B;
Spaendonk, RV;
Nelissen, A;
Scarioni, M;
Dijkstra, A;
... Pijnenburg, Y; + view all
(2021)
The Right Temporal Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia is Not Genetically Sporadic: A Case Series.
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
10.3233/JAD-201191.
(In press).
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia (rtvFTD) has been generally considered as a right sided variant of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), which is a genetically sporadic disorder. Recently, we have shown that rtvFTD has a unique clinical syndrome compared to svPPA and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. OBJECTIVE: We challenge the assumption that rtvFTD is a sporadic, non-familial variant of FTD by identifying potential autosomal dominant inheritance and related genes in rtvFTD. METHODS: We collected all subjects with a diagnosis of FTD or primary progressive aphasia who had undergone genetic screening (n = 284) and subsequently who had a genetic variant (n = 48) with a diagnosis of rtvFTD (n = 6) in 2 specialized memory clinics. RESULTS: Genetic variants in FTD related genes were found in 33% of genetically screened rtvFTD cases; including MAPT (n = 4), GRN (n = 1), and TARDBP (n = 1) genes, whereas only one svPPA case had a genetic variant in our combined cohorts. Additionally, 4 out of 6 rtvFTD subjects had a strong family history for dementia. CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrate that rtvFTD, unlike svPPA, is not a pure sporadic, but a heterogeneous potential genetic variant of FTD, and screening for genetic causes for FTD should be performed in patients with rtvFTD.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Right Temporal Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia is Not Genetically Sporadic: A Case Series |
| Location: | Netherlands |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3233/JAD-201191 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-201191 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2020 – IOS Press and the authors. This article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
| Keywords: | Dementia, GRN, MAPT, TARDBP, frontotemporal dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, genetic, right temporallobe |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Brain Repair and Rehabilitation |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119874 |
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