Annotation Detail

Information
Associated Genes
C9orf72
Associated Variants
rs1990622
rs1990622
Associated Disease
frontotemporal dementia
Source Database
DisGeNET
Description
Intriguingly, the genotype that confers increased risk for developing FTLD-TDP (major, or T, allele of rs1990622) is associated with later age at onset and death in C9orf72 expansion carriers, providing an example of sign epistasis in human neurodegenerative disease.
Pubmed
24442578
Original source reporting the Gene Disease association
BeFree
DisGENET score for the Gene Disease association
0.0428878157886879
Year of publication
2013
Drugs