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RESEARCH NEWS 2013-12-20 Research News Previous studies indicated that polymorphisms in the TMEM106B gene exacerbate frontotemporal dementia caused by progranulin mutations, advancing disease onset by more than a decade. Now, new research strengthens the case for that synergy, an
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