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Frontotemporal dementia due to MAPT mutation

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Link to WHO Definition

Frontotemporal dementia due to MAPT mutation – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/105628451

FTD due to a mutation in the gene encoding MAP-tau on chromosome 17. Clinical presentation is usually early onset, with behavioural or language syndromes, with or without Parkinsonism. Neuropathologically it is associated with tau inclusions including Pick bodies.