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Apolipoprotein E polymorphisms and Parkinson's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 24 Dec 1999
Oliveri R L, Nicoletti G, Cittadella R, Manna I, Branca D, Zappia M, Gambardella A, Caracciolo M, Quattrone A
Abstract excerpt
The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene polymorphism has been studied in Parkinson's disease (PD) with conflicting results. Recently, a newly described functional polymorphism in the regulatory region of the APOE gene, (-491 A/T), has been associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease. We studied the association between these two polymorphisms of the APOE gene with PD in a sample of 126 PD patients and in 119 controls...
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