Screening for C9orf72 expansion mutation in Serbian patients with early-onset dementia

Gorana Mandic-Stojmenovic, Elka Stefanova, Valerija Dobricic, Ivana Novakovic, Tanja Stojkovic, Aleksandar Jesic, Vladimir Kostic*

*Corresponding author for this work
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Abstract

Background: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common cause of early-onset dementia (EOD), characterized by behavioral changes (behavioral variant; bvFTD) or language deficits. A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in a noncoding region of chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) has been proved to be a major cause of both familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or FTD, with or without concomitant motor neuron disease (MND). Methods: The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansion in a cohort of 117 Serbian patients with EOD and to report phenotypic features of identified carriers. Results: We identified 4 of 117 (3.4%) patients with EOD to have C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansions. All patients were classified in the FTD disease spectrum group (8.2%): 3 patients fulfilled the criteria for bvFTD, and 1 patient had FTD-MND. None of the patients with the C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansion fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for language variants of FTD, FTD-progressive supranuclear palsy overlap syndrome, dementia with Lewy bodies or Alzheimer's dementia. Conclusion: In a cohort of consecutive patients with EOD, 3.4% had the C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansion with clinical phenotypes of bvFTD or an overlap of bvFTD and MND.

Original languageEnglish
JournalDementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Volume40
Issue number5-6
Pages (from-to)358-365
Number of pages8
ISSN1420-8008
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14.10.2015

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