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. 2015 Dec 16;139(2):452–467. doi: 10.1093/brain/awv358

Table 4.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of TBK1 carriers versus C9orf72, GRN or non-mutation carriers

TBK1 C9orf72 GRN No mutation
Familial Sporadic Unknown
FTD patients (index), n 7 (5) 65 (51) 52 (21) 76 (76) 102 (102) 81 (81)
Male, n (%) 3 (42.9) 36 (55.4) 23 (44.2) 44 (57.9) 57 (55.9) 48 (59.3)
Age at onset, y Mean (SD) 63.3 (7.7) 54.3 (9.2) 61.0 (6.5) 63.9 (9.2) 61.7 (11.0) 68.5 (11.4)
Median (range) 64 (48–70) 54 (29–75) 62 (45–70) 65 (29–79) 63 (29–83) 72 (42–82)
Disease duration, y Mean (SD) 8.2 (4.9) 6.0 (4.8) 5.6 (2.1) 6.0 (3.14) 7.1 (4.2) 8.8 (3.0)
Median (range) 8.7 (2–13) 4.7 (1–19) 5.4 (2–11) 6.0 (1–14) 7.0 (1–22) 9.0 (5–12)
Familial history, n (%) F-AD 3 (42.9) 35 (53.8) 18 (34.6) 15 (19.7)
F 3 (42.9) 21 (32.3) 16 (30.8) 61 (80.3)
S 1 (14.3) 3 (4.6) 5 (9.6) 102 (100.0)
U 0 6 (9.2) 13 (25.0) 81 (100.0)
Clinical subtype, n (%*) BvFTD 6 (85.7) 51 (83.6) 19 (45.2) 41 (63.1) 62 (67.4) 19 (65.5)
PNFA 0 5 (8.2) 16 (38.1) 5 (7.7) 13 (14.1) 4 (13.8)
SD 1 (14.3) 3 (4.9) 4 (9.5) 14 (21.5) 7 (7.6) 4 (13.8)
LA 0 0 0 0 2 (2.2) 0
PPA U 0 0 0 1 (1.5) 0 0
Mixed FTD 0 2 (3.3) 3 (7.1) 4 (6.2) 8 (8.7) 2 (6.9)
Behavioural subtype, n (%*) Apathetic 1 (16.7) 14 (31.1) 14 (87.5) 13 (36.1) 25 (41.7) 6 (66.7)
Disinhibition 5 (83.3) 31 (68.9) 2 (12.5) 23 (63.9) 35 (58.3) 3 (33.3)
FTD-ALS , n (%*) Total 1 (14.3) 15 (23.1) 0 1 (1.3) 5 (4.9) 3 (3.7)
Bulbar onset 0 3 (4.6) 0 0 1 (1.0) 1 (1.2)
Spinal onset 1 (14.3) 3 (4.6) 0 1 (1.3) 0 0
Bulbospinal onset 0 5 (7.7) 0 0 3 (2.9) 0
Unknown onset 0 4 (6.2) 0 0 1 (1.0) 2 (2.5)
Extrapyramidal symptoms, n (%*) 4 (57.1) 9 (17.6) 7 (18.9) 22 (33.3) 24 (27.9) 10 (37.0)
Psychiatric symptoms, n (%*) Total 4 (57.1) 16 (30.7) 7 (18.9) 15 (24.6) 28 (33.3) 5 (25.0)
Psychosis 2 (28.6) 8 (15.3) 2 (5.4) 4 (6.6) 12 (14.3) 2 (10.0)
Depression 2 (28.6) 7 (13.4) 5 (13.5) 7 (11.5) 14 (16.7) 3 (15.0)
Abuse 0 4 (7.7) 0 4 (6.6) 4 (4.8) 1 (5.0)

BvFTD = behavioural variant of FTD; F = familial; F-AD = familial-autosomal dominant; LA = logopenic progressive aphasia; PNFA = progressive non-fluent aphasia; PPA U = primary progressive aphasia unspecified subtype; S = sporadic; SD = standard deviation ; U = unknown.

*Percentage (%) within group of patients for whom we have information.