RAN proteins and RNA foci from antisense transcripts in C9ORF72 ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on November 18, 2013

Authors

Tao Zu1, Yuanjing Liu, Monica Bañez-Coronel, Tammy Reid, Olga Pletnikova, Jada Lewis, Timothy M Miller, Matthew B Harms, Annet E Falchook, S H Subramony, Lyle W Ostrow, Jeffrey D Rothstein, Juan C Troncoso, Laura P W Ranum

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Department of Neurology, and Department of Neuroscience, Center for NeuroGenetics, Genetics Institute, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610.

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