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The authors wish to thank the patient and her family for their invaluable contributions to neurodegeneration research. The authors also wish to thank Dr. Leonard Petrucelli and his group at the Mayo Clinic Florida for contributing dipeptide repeat protein antibodies. This work was supported by NIH grants AG023501 and AG019724, the Tau Consortium, and the Bluefield Project to Cure FTD.
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Sampognaro, P.J., Vatsavayai, S.C., Cosme, C.G. et al. C9orf72-specific phenomena associated with frontotemporal dementia and gastrointestinal symptoms in the absence of TDP-43 aggregation. Acta Neuropathol 138, 1093–1097 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-019-02084-y
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