Diagnosing pre-clinical dementia : the NZ Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Study (FTDGeNZ)

• Published in: New Zealand medical journal Vol. 131; no. 1476; pp. 88 - 91
• Main Author: Ryan, Brigid
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand Pasifika Medical Association Group (PMAG) 08.06.2018
• Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; Apoptosis; Biomarkers; Brain research; Caregivers; Dementia; Disease susceptibility; Frontotemporal dementia; Genetic aspects; Genetic markers; Medical diagnosis; Medical imaging; Mutation; Neurology; Proteins; Researchers; Semantics; New Zealand

Introduces and describes the NZ Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Study (FTDGeNZ), a multidisciplinary, inter-institutional initiative in search of pre-clinical diagnostic markers of dementia in a large New Zealand kindred which carries a genetic mutation in the MAPT gene that predictably causes behav...