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Alcohol dehydrogenase alleles in Parkinson's disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Sept 2000
Buervenich S, Sydow O, Carmine A, Zhang Z, Anvret M, Olson L
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; EC 1.1.1.1) genes may be of interest in the etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) because of the important role these enzymes play in retinoid and dopamine metabolism and/or aldehyde detoxification. The location of several alcohol dehydrogenase genes in a cluster on chromosome 4 lends further support to ADH genes being candidates for this disorder, because recently a form...
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