Table 1

Patient demographic information

C9orf72 expansion positiveC9orf72 expansion negativep Value
N (M/F)64 (39M/25F)79 (43M/36F)0.435
Clinical phenotype N (%)ALS 31 (48.4%); ALS 30, ALS-MCI 1ALS 36 (45.6%); ALS 35, ALS-MCI 10.542
FTD 22 (34.4%); bvFTD 17, svPPA 1, naPPA 4FTD 32 (40.5%); bvFTD 23, svPPA 7, CBS 2
ALS-FTD 9 (14.1%); ALS-bvFTD 9ALS-FTD 10 (12.7%); ALS-bvFTD 9, ALS-naPPA 1
AD 2 (3.1%)*; AD-probable 2AD 1 (1.3%)*; lvPPA 1
Family history:
Goldman score N (%)
 110/62(16.1%)‡5/72 (6.9%)§0.088
 28/62 (12.9%)5/72 (6.9%)
 310/62 (16.1%)7/72 (9.7%)
 3.54/62 (6.5%)11/72 (15.3%)
 430/62 (48.4%)44/72 (61.1%)
Mean (SEM) age of onset, years
 Total55.8 (1.0)58.8 (1.1)0.047
 ALS55.1 (1.7)60.3 (1.9)0.044
 FTLD56.4 (1.2)57.4 (1.2)0.533
Mean (SEM)† age at death, years
 Total60.1 (1.5) n=4365.3 (1.4) n=490.014
 ALS58.0 (1.9) n=2466.3 (1.9) n=290.003
 FTLD62.9 (2.3) n=1963.9 (2.1) n=200.758
Mean (SEM)† disease duration, years
 Total4.0 (0.4) n=434.6 (0.5) n=490.302
 ALS2.6 (0.3) n=243.8 (0.4) n=290.035
 FTLD5.7 (0.8) n=195.8 (0.9) n=200.897
  • *All AD clinical phenotype cases were pathologically confirmed FTLD with TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) inclusions (FTLD-TDP).

  • Bold values represent significance (p<0.05).

  • †Analysis performed on subset of patients who were deceased.

  • ‡Positive family history data from two pairs of related individuals were omitted due to redundancy.

  • §Family history data from seven C9N GRN mutations cases were removed from the analysis.

  • AD, Alzheimer's disease; ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS-MCI, ALS mild cognitive impairment; CBS, corticobasal syndrome; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; FTLD, frontotemporal lobar degeneration; naPPA, non-fluent/agrammatic variant PPA; PPA, primary progressive aphasia; svPPA, semantic variant PPA.