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Association study of dopamine receptor gene polymorphisms with drug-induced hallucinations in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Feb 2000
Makoff A J, Graham J M, Arranz M J, Forsyth J, Li T, Aitchison K J, Shaikh S, Grünewald R A
Abstract excerpt
Some patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease experience hallucinations as a result of treatment with levodopa and dopamine agonists. There is evidence for some heterogeneity in these hallucinating patients based on duration of Parkinson's disease at onset of hallucinations. We compared the frequency of polymorphisms in the dopamine D2 and D3 receptor genes between patients with drug-induced hallucinations...
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