C9ORF72 transcription in a frontotemporal dementia case with two expanded alleles

Cooper-Knock, Johnathan, Higginbottom, Adrian, Connor-Robson, Natalie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-6928, Bayatti, Nadhim, Bury, Joanna J., Kirby, Janine, Ninkina, Natalia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8570-5648, Buchman, Vladimir L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7631-8352 and Shaw, Pamela J. 2013. C9ORF72 transcription in a frontotemporal dementia case with two expanded alleles. Neurology 81 (19) , pp. 1719-1721. 10.1212/01.wnl.0000435295.41974.2e

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Abstract

Discovery of intronic hexanucleotide repeat expansions of the C9ORF72 gene in a significant proportion of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)1,2 was an important step for research into these disorders. The C9ORF72 genetic variant is more common than other described mutations and, unlike patients with mutations in SOD1, C9ORF72-ALS clinically and pathologically resembles the more numerous sporadic form.3 However, progress has been limited by lack of understanding of the function of the C9ORF72 locus in health and disease. It is unknown whether the expansion causes disease by a gain of toxicity, or whether it disrupts expression of the wild-type protein encoded by the C9ORF72 gene, or some combination of both mechanisms.1,2,4

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN:	0028-3878
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2023 06:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/56907

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