Table 1.
Chouery et al. (2008) | Guerreiro et al. (2013b) | Giraldo et al. (2013) | Present study | |||||||||
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Number of families | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Geographic origin | Lebanon | Turkey | Colombia | Turkey | ||||||||
Sibling 1 | Sibling 2 | Sibling 3 | Patient 1 | Patient 2 | Patient 3 | Sibling 1 | Sibling 2 | Sibling 3 (index) | Sibling 1 | Sibling 2 (index) | ||
Gender | F | F | M | M | M | M | M | F | F | F | F | |
Diagnosis | Early-onset dementia | bvFTD like | bvFTD | bvFTD like | ||||||||
Age at onset (y) | 30–35 | 20 | Late 30s | 33 | 50 | 45 | 47 | 32 | 36 | |||
Age at death (y) | 50 | Alive (50) | 46 | 33 | Alive (50) | 45 | Alive (55) | NA | Alive (48) | Alive (40) | Alive (41) | |
Initial symptoms | Forgetfulness and fatigue | Personality changes with aggressive behavior | Personality changes with aggressive and perseverative behavior | Generalized T-C seizure | Altered social behavior and oropharyngeal tic in 1 sibling | Behavioral changes with nonfluent aphasia | Generalized T-C seizures | |||||
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Cognitive deterioration + behavioral changes | |||||
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Asymmetric bifrontal atrophy | Frontoparietal and temporal cortical atrophy
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Family history | No history of dementia in the parents | History of dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy in the family | One brother, paternal uncle, and maternal grandfather presented late-onset memory impairment | No family history of cognitive or behavioral impairment | One paternal uncle and brother had similar symptoms | No family history of cognitive or behavioral impairment | ||||||
TREM2 mutation | c.40+3delAGG | c.97C>T; p.Q33X | c.197C>T; p.T66M | c.113A>G; p.Y38C | c.594G>A; p.W198X | c.[113A>G];[257A>T]; p.[(Y38C)];[(D86V)] |
Key: bvFTD, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; CC, corpus callosum; F, female; M, male; NA, not applicable; T-C, tonic-clonic; UI, urinary incontinence; WM, white matter.