Eliana Marisa Ramos1, Deepika Reddy Dokuru1, Victoria Van Berlo1, Kevin Wojta1, Qing Wang1, Alden Y Huang2, Zachary A Miller3, Anna M Karydas3, Eileen H Bigio4, Emily Rogalski4, Sandra Weintraub4, Benjamin Rader4, Bruce L Miller3, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini3, Marek-Marsel Mesulam4, Giovanni Coppola5. 1. Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2. Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 3. Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. 4. Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 5. Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: gcoppola@ucla.edu.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurological syndrome, associated with both frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease, in which progressive language impairment emerges as the most salient clinical feature during the initial stages of disease. METHODS: We screened the main genes associated with Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia for pathogenic and risk variants in a cohort of 403 PPA cases. RESULTS: In this case series study, 14 (3.5%) cases carried (likely) pathogenic variants: four C9orf72 expansions, nine GRN, and one TARDBP mutation. Rare risk variants, TREM2 R47H and MAPT A152T, were associated with a three- to seven-fold increase in risk for PPA. DISCUSSION: Our results show that while pathogenic variants within the most common dementia genes were rarely associated with PPA, these were found almost exclusively in GRN and C9orf72, suggesting that PPA is more TDP43- than tau-related in our series. This is consistent with the finding that PPA frequency in dominantly inherited dementias is the highest in kindreds with GRN variants.
INTRODUCTION:Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurological syndrome, associated with both frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease, in which progressive language impairment emerges as the most salient clinical feature during the initial stages of disease. METHODS: We screened the main genes associated with Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia for pathogenic and risk variants in a cohort of 403 PPA cases. RESULTS: In this case series study, 14 (3.5%) cases carried (likely) pathogenic variants: four C9orf72 expansions, nine GRN, and one TARDBP mutation. Rare risk variants, TREM2 R47H and MAPTA152T, were associated with a three- to seven-fold increase in risk for PPA. DISCUSSION: Our results show that while pathogenic variants within the most common dementia genes were rarely associated with PPA, these were found almost exclusively in GRN and C9orf72, suggesting that PPA is more TDP43- than tau-related in our series. This is consistent with the finding that PPA frequency in dominantly inherited dementias is the highest in kindreds with GRN variants.
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