Testing is different for individuals with a clinical diagnosis of FTD and those with a biological family member with a known progranulin genetic variant.
For biological family members, genetic testing will focus only on the progranulin (GRN) gene to identify any disease causing variants in that gene.*
For individuals with a clinical diagnosis of FTD, Probably Genetic’s lab partner will perform whole exome sequencing.* Participants with a clinical diagnosis of FTD will receive a report that provides their results for the following genes: C9orf72, CHMP2B, CTSF, FUS, GRN, MAPT, SQSTM1, TARDBP, TBK1, TIA1, TMEM106B, UBQLN1, VCP, CHCHD10, OPTN, HNRNPA2B1, UBQLN2, and CSFR1. [Click here to learn more about genetic testing.]
*Participants from NY state will have whole genome sequencing performed; however, biological relatives of individuals with GRN variants will only receive results related to GRN and individuals with a clinical diagnosis of FTD will receive results related to the genes listed above.