MAPT and tauopathy: For example, tauopathies are characterised by deposition of tau protein, encoded by the MAPT (microtubule-associated protein tau) gene, and these include frontotemporal dementia (FTD), corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, Pick’s disease, and other rarer neurodegenerative disorders (Goedert et al. 2017).