New risk factor identified for Early- Onset Dementia

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
February, 2010
Press release

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found a new risk factor for Early-Onset Dementia. “Using a genome-wide scan for genetic variation in post-mortem brain tissue, we were able to pinpoint variations common to patients with a specific subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, FTLD,” says co-first author Vivianna Van Deerlin, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Penn.

See press release here: Penn researchers find new risk factors for second most common form of Early-Onset Dementia