BMC Neurology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Pedigree with frontotemporal lobar degeneration – motor neuron disease and Tar DNA binding protein-43 positive neuropathology: genetic linkage to chromosome 9 Agnes A Luty1,2,3, John BJ Kwok1,2,3, Elizabeth M Thompson4, Peter Blumbergs5, William S Brooks1,2, Clement T Loy1,2,3, Carol Dobson- Stone1,2, Peter K Panegyres6,7, Jane Hecker8, Garth A Nicholson9,10, Glenda M Halliday1,2 and Peter R Schofield*1,2,3 Address: 1Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 3Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 4SA Clinical Genetics Service, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 5Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 6Neurosciences Unit, Department of Health, Perth, WA, Australia, 7Neurodegenerative Disorders Research, Subiaco, WA, Australia, 8College Grove Private Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 9Northcott Neuroscience Laboratory, ANZAC Research Institute, Concord Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia and 10Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Email: Agnes A Luty -
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[email protected] * Corresponding author Published: 29 August 2008 Received: 20 June 2008 Accepted: 29 August 2008 BMC Neurology 2008, 8:32 doi:10.1186/1471-2377-8-32 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/8/32 © 2008 Luty et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.