2009-10-22
Variation at GRN3′-UTR rs5848 is not associated with a risk of frontotemporal lobar degenerationin Dutch population
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PLoS ONE , Volume 4 - Issue 10
Background: A single nucleotide polymorphism (rs5848) located in the 3′- untranslated region of GRN has recently been associated with a risk of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) in North American population particularly in pathologically confirmed cases with neural inclusions immunoreactive for ubiquitin and TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), but negative for tau and alpha-synuclein (FTLD-TDP). Methodology/Principal Findings: In an effort to replicate these results in a different population, rs5848 was genotyped in 256 FTLD cases and 1695 controls from the Netherlands. Single SNP gender-adjusted logistic regression analysis revealed no significant association between variation at rs5848 and FTLD. Fisher's exact test, failed to find any significant association between rs5848 and a subset of 23 pathology confirmed FTLD-TDP cases. Conclusions/Significance: The evidence presented here suggests that variation at rs5848 does not contribute to the etiology of FTLD in the Dutch population.
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| Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
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Simón-Sánchez, J., Seelaar, H., Bochdanovits, Z., Deeg, D., van Swieten, J., & Heutink, P. (2009). Variation at GRN3′-UTR rs5848 is not associated with a risk of frontotemporal lobar degenerationin Dutch population. PLoS ONE, 4(10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007494 |
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