Mutations in TYROBP are not a common cause of dementia in a Turkish cohort

Publication date: October 2017
Source:Neurobiology of Aging, Volume 58
Author(s): Lee Darwent, Susana Carmona, Ebba Lohmann, Gamze Guven, Celia Kun-Rodrigues, Basar Bilgic, Hasmet Hanagasi, Hakan Gurvit, Nihan Erginel-Unaltuna, Meltem Pak, John Hardy, Andrew Singleton, Jose Brás, Rita Guerreiro
Mutations in TYROBP and TREM2 have been shown to cause polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy. Recently, variants in TREM2 were also associated with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Given the functional proximity between these 2 genes, we investigated the genetic variation of TYROBP in a Turkish cohort of 103 dementia patients. No mutations or copy number variants predicted to be pathogenic were identified. These results indicate that mutations in TYROBP are not a common cause of dementia in this Turkish cohort.



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