Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) comprises a highly heterogeneous group of disorders clinically associated with behavioral and personality changes, language impairment, and deficits in executive functioning, and pathologically associated with degeneration of frontal and temporal lobes. Some patients present with motor symptoms including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Genetic research over the past two decades in FTLD families led to the identification of three common FTLD genes (microtubule-associated protein tau, progranulin, and chromosome 9 open reading frame 72) and a small number of rare FTLD genes, explaining the disease in almost all autosomal dominant FTLD families but only a minority of apparently sporadic patients or patients in whom the family history is less clear. Identification of additional FTLD (risk) genes is therefore highly anticipated, especially with the emerging use of next-generation sequencing. (FUS, EWS, TAF15); MAPT, microtubule-associated tau gene; CBD, corticobasal degeneration; PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy; GGT, globular glial tauopathies; AGD, argyrophilic grain disease; AD, Alzheimer's disease; TDP-43, TAR DNA-binding protein; FUS, fused in sarcoma; aFTLD-U, atypical-FTLD-U; EWS, ewing in sarcoma; TAF15, TATA-binding protein-associated factor 15; FTDP-17, frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17; cM, centimorgan; PiD, Pick's disease; MT, microtubule; NFTs, neurofibrillary tangles; iPSC, induced pluripotent stem cells; GRN, progranulin; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; CBS, corticobasal syndrome; NCL, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis; SAHA, suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid; C9orf72, chromosome 9 open reading frame 72; DPRs, dipeptide repeat proteins; DENN, differentially expressed in normal and neoplasia; GEF, guanine nucleotide exchange factors; CHMP2B, charged multivesicular body protein 2B; ESCRT-III, endosome sorting complex required for transport 3; VCP, valosin-containing protein gene; IBM, inclusion body myopathy; PDB, paget disease of the bone; IBMPFD, inclusion body myopathy with Paget disease of the bone and frontotemporal dementia; MSP, multisystem proteinopathy; hnRNPA1, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1; hnRNPA2B1, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1; SQSTM1, sequestosome 1; TBK1, TANK binding kinase 1; OPTN, optineurin; TRN1, transportin; CHCHD10, coiled-coil-helix-coiled-coil-helix domain containing 10; MICOS, mitochondrial contact site and cristae organization system; UBQLN2, ubiquilin 2; DCTN1, dynactin 1; CSF1R, colony stimulating receptor factor 1 gene; PRKAR1B, protein kinase A type I-beta regulatory subunit gene; TREM2, triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 gene; TMEM106B, the transmembrane protein 106B gene; GWAS, genome-wide association study; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; CTSC, cathepsin C; ATXN2, ataxin 2 gene; APOE, apolipoprotein E; PRNP, prion protein and UNC13A unc-13 homolog A, C. elegans; ANG, angiogenin; GENFI, genetic and frontotemporal dementia initiative; LEFFTDS, Longitudi...