Even so, in participants with FTD, GFAP associated with poorer scores on the CDR® + NACC-FTLDsb, phonemic and semantic fluency tests, Trails B, and the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE; an alternate cognitive test to the MoCA) [8, 11], which aligns with our results, although other studies showed no such associations [9, 21–23]. The gene discussed is GFAP; the disease is frontotemporal dementia.