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Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) gene 766T polymorphism and Parkinson's disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Sept 1999
Baum L, Dong Z Y, Ng H K, Law L K, Woo J, Pang C P
Abstract excerpt
The C766T polymorphism in exon 3 of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) gene is underrepresented in Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared with normal subjects. We examined this polymorphism in 186 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 187 age-matched normal Chinese subjects in addition to 227 newborns representing the general population. The fraction of individuals with 766T was 12.8% in...
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