Frontotemporal dementia, Parkinsonism and lower motor neuron involvement in a patient with C9ORF72 expansion

Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2013 Jan;14(1):66-9. doi: 10.3109/17482968.2012.692383. Epub 2012 Jun 18.

Abstract

It has been recently reported that a large proportion of patients with familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and/or frontotemporal dementia (FTD) carries the hexanucleotide (GGGGCC) repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72. We describe a patient with a complex phenotype characterized by behavioural variant of FTD, Parkinsonism and ALS with predominant lower motor neuron involvement in which the C9ORF72 expansion was detected.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / diagnosis
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / genetics*
  • DNA Repeat Expansion / genetics*
  • Female
  • Frontotemporal Dementia / diagnosis*
  • Frontotemporal Dementia / genetics*
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Muscular Atrophy, Spinal / genetics*
  • Parkinson Disease / diagnosis
  • Parkinson Disease / genetics*