An update on genetic frontotemporal dementia

CV Greaves, JD Rohrer - Journal of neurology, 2019 - Springer
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a highly heritable group of neurodegenerative disorders,
with around 30% of patients having a strong family history. The majority of that heritability is …

Imaging and fluid biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia

LH Meeter, LD Kaat, JD Rohrer… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common type of presenile dementia, is a
heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive behavioural …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of gray matter atrophy in genetic frontotemporal dementia: results from the GENFI study

DM Cash, M Bocchetta, DL Thomas, KM Dick… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a highly heritable condition with multiple genetic causes.
In this study, similarities and differences of gray matter (GM) atrophy patterns were assessed …

Progranulin: a new avenue towards the understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative disease

BP Chitramuthu, HPJ Bennett, A Bateman - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Progranulin, a secreted glycoprotein, is encoded in humans by the single GRN gene.
Progranulin consists of seven and a half, tandemly repeated, non-identical copies of the 12 …

Longitudinal multimodal MRI as prognostic and diagnostic biomarker in presymptomatic familial frontotemporal dementia

LC Jiskoot, JL Panman, LH Meeter, EGP Dopper… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Developing and validating sensitive biomarkers for the presymptomatic stage of familial
frontotemporal dementia is an important step in early diagnosis and for the design of future …

Conceptual framework for the definition of preclinical and prodromal frontotemporal dementia

A Benussi, A Alberici, K Samra, LL Russell… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The presymptomatic stages of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are still poorly defined and
encompass a long accrual of progressive biological (preclinical) and then clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Gray and white matter changes in presymptomatic genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal MRI study

JL Panman, LC Jiskoot, MJRJ Bouts, LHH Meeter… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In genetic frontotemporal dementia, cross-sectional studies have identified profiles of
presymptomatic neuroanatomical loss for C9orf72 repeat expansion, MAPT, and GRN …

Plasma NfL levels and longitudinal change rates in C9orf72 and GRN-associated diseases: from tailored references to clinical applications

D Saracino, K Dorgham, A Camuzat… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a promising biomarker in genetic frontotemporal
dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We evaluated plasma …

Modelling the cascade of biomarker changes in GRN-related frontotemporal dementia

JL Panman, V Venkatraghavan… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective Progranulin-related frontotemporal dementia (FTD-GRN) is a fast progressive
disease. Modelling the cascade of multimodal biomarker changes aids in understanding the …

The presymptomatic phase of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: are we merely scratching the surface?

RH Chipika, WF Siah, MC McKenna, S Li Hi Shing… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Presymptomatic studies in ALS have consistently captured considerable disease burden
long before symptom manifestation and contributed important academic insights. With the …