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. 2007 Jul;171(1):227–240. doi: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.070182

Table 1.

Demographic, Clinical, Genetic, and Neuropathologic Data of Cases

Familial and sporadic FTDs Demographic data
Diagnosis
Onset (years) [mean (range)] Duration (years) [mean (range)] Gender Clinical diagnosis (n, %) Pathological diagnosis (n, %) Pathological diagnosis-other (n, %)
Familial FTD with PGRN mutation (n = 36)
59.8 (50 to 74) 7.06 (3 to 15) 20 F/16 M FTD (27, 75) FTLD-U (36, 100) AD (8, 22)
PPA (2, 6) AD, HS (2, 6)
FTD + CBD (2, 6) AD, MS (1, 3)
DAT/dementia (5, 14) CVD (4, 11)
HS (1, 3)
DLB, PD (1, 3)
Familial FTD with VCP mutation (n = 5)
51.4 (38 to 62) 7.2 (5 to 9) 4 F/1 M FTD (5, 100) FTLD-U (5, 100)
Familial FTD with CHMP2Bmutation (n= 4)
53.3 (50 to 48) 12.8 (9 to 21) 3 F/1 M FTD (4, 100) FTLD-U (4, 100)
Familial FTD with/without MND linked to chromosome 9 (n= 7)
53.8 (39 to 59) 3.7 (2 to 11) 4 F/3 M FTD (1, 14) FTLD-U (2, 29)
FTD + MND (4, 57) FTLD-MND (5, 71)
MND (2, 28)
Other familial FTD cases (n = 29)
57.1 (33 to 69) 7.4 (2 to 19) 15 F/14 M FTD (21, 72) FTLD-U (27, 93) AD (2, 7)
PPA (2, 7) FTLD-MND (2, 7) AGD (3, 10)
DAT/dementia (6, 21) HS (1, 3)
AD, DLB (1, 3)
Sporadic FTD cases (n = 72)
60.5 (33 to 89) 7.5 (2 to 18) 28 F/44 M FTD (49, 68) FTLD-U (61, 85) AD (9, 13)
PPA (6, 8) FTLD-MND (11, 15) HS (3, 4)
CBD (3, 4) AGD (2, 3)
PPA + CBD (1, 1) CBD (1, 1)
DAT/dementia (13, 18)
Familial FTD and MND (n = 17)
51.0 (44 to 63) 6.6 (1 to 6) 5 F/12 M PPA + MND (1, 6) FTLD-MND (17, 100) AD (2, 12)
FTD + MND (16, 94) CVD (1, 6)
Sporadic FTD and MND (n = 23)
54.7 (35 to 72) 4.0 (1 to 11) 6 F/19 M FTD + MND (21, 92) FTLD-U (1, 4)
PPA + MND (2, 8) FTLD-MND (22, 96)
Other familial and sporadic FTD cases (non-FTLD-U) FTLD (n = 2)
75.5 (62 to 89) 6 (3 to 9) 2 F/0 M FTD (1, 50) FTLD (2, 100) Infarcts (1, 50)
DAT (1, 50)
65 (NA) 8 (NA) 5 F/6 M FTD (11, 84) PICK (13, 100) AD (3, 23)
DAT (1, 8)
CJD (1, 8)
 Corticobasal degeneration (n = 19)
70.0 (57 to 78) 7.6 (5 to 12) 8 F/6 M FTD (10, 53) CBD (19, 100) AD, HS (1, 5)
CBD (9, 47)
 Progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 4)
73 (NA) 3 (NA) NA FTD + PD (4, 100) PSP (4, 100) AD (1, 25)
 FTD with MAPTmutation (n = 5)
60 (57 to 63) 14 (10 to 18) 0 F/2 M FTD (4, 80) FTD-MAPT (5, 100)
Dementia (1, 20)
 Neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (n = 6)
37 (25 to 48) 3.7 (3 to 4) 2 F/2 M FTD (5, 83) NIFID (6, 100)
PLS (1, 17)
 Basophilic inclusion body disease (n = 2)
29 (NA) 10 (NA) 0 F/2 M FTD (1, 50) BIBD (2, 100)
CBD (1, 50)
 Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (n = 2)
37.5 (36 to 39) 8.5 (7 to 10) 2 F/0 M FTD (2, 100) HDLS (2, 100)
Other diseases
 Alzheimer’s disease (n = 19)
73 (59 to 99) 8 (4 to 13) 7 F/9 M DAT (18, 95) AD (19, 100) Lewy bodies (3, 16)
FTD (1, 5) Infarct (1, 5)
HS (1, 5)
 Argyrophilic grain disease (n = 2)
70.5 (54 to 87) 8.5 (7 to 10) 2 F/0 M FTD (1, 50) AGD (2, 100)
Dementia (1, 50)
 Tangle-only dementia (n = 2)
74 (NA) 4 (NA) 1 F/1 M DAT/dementia (2, 100) TOD (2, 100)
 Parkinson’s disease (n = 3)
51 (35 to 67) 16 (10 to 20) 1 F/2 M PD (3, 100) PD (3, 100) DLB (2, 67)
HS (1, 33)
 Dementia with Lewy bodies (n= 8)
65.5 (62 to 69) 13 (5 to 13) 4 F/4 M DLB (3, 38) DLB (8, 100) AD (7, 87)
DAT + PD (2, 25) PD (1, 13)
DAT/dementia (3, 38)
 Multiple system atrophy (n = 3)
NA NA NA MSA (3, 100) MSA (3, 100)
 Trinucleotide repeat disease (n = 3)
38 (NA) 6 (NA) 1 F/2 M HD (1, 33) HD (1, 33) Tauopathy
HD + FTD (1, 33) SCA (2, 67)
FTD (1, 33)
 Hippocampal sclerosis (n = 2)
43 (NA) 6 2 F/0 M DAT (1, 50) HS (2, 100) AD (1, 50)
PD + DAT (1, 50)
Normal adult brain (n = 19)
83.8** (73 to 98) NA 8 F/11 M NL (15, 79) NL (19, 100) Gliosis (1, 5)
Schizophrenia (4, 21)

AGD, argyrophilic grain disease; BIBD, basophilic inclusion body disease; CVD, cerebrovascular disease; PGRN, progranulin; VCP, valosin-containing protein; CHMP2B, charged multivesicular body protein 2B; CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; DAT, dementia of the Alzheimer’s type; DLB, dementia with Lewy bodies; CBD, corticobasal degeneration; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; FTD-MAPT, FTD with tau mutation; FTLD, frontotemporal lobar degeneration; FTLD-MND, FTLD with ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions and MND; FTLD-U, FTLD with ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions but without MND; HD, Huntington’s disease; HDLS, hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids; HS, hippocampal sclerosis; MS, multiple sclerosis; MND, motor neuron disease; MSA, multiple system atrophy; NIFID, neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease; PD, Parkinson’s disease; PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy; SCA, spinocerebellar ataxia; PICK, Pick disease; PPA, primary progressive aphasia; TOD, tangle-only dementia; NA, not available; NL, normal adult brain with no neurologic or psychiatric disease; F, female; M, male. 

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Age at death.