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Autosomal-recessive juvenile parkinsonism in a Jewish Yemenite kindred: mutation of Parkin gene.
Neurology - 22 Oct 1999
Nisipeanu P, Inzelberg R, Blumen S C, Carasso R L, Hattori N, Matsumine H, Mizuno Y
Abstract excerpt
We report a Jewish family of Yemenite origin in which three brothers born from a consanguineous marriage had juvenile parkinsonism. The DNA samples from three affected brothers and one healthy brother were analyzed for the linkage to markers covering the autosomal-recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP) locus. A perfect homozygous cosegregation to the markers was found, giving a maximal lod score of 3.11 at...
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