Table 1.
Characteristic | FTDP-17 (MAPT) | FTLD-U (PGRN) |
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Mean onset age, years | 49 (25–76) | 59 (48–83) |
Clinical presentation | Behavioral changes or parkinsonism, supranuclear gaze palsy, dystonia | Behavioral changes, language impairment, rarely parkinsonism, CBS, MND |
Mean disease duration, years | 7 (2–30) | 7 (2–17) |
Pathology | FTLD, tau-immunoreactive inclusions | FTLD, ubiquitin immuno- reactive/TDP-43-positive intranuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions |
Figures in parentheses indicate ranges. CBS = Corticobasal syndrome; FTDP-17 = frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17; FTLD = fronto-temporal lobar degeneration; MND = motor neuron disease.