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Clinical phenotype in patients with alpha-synuclein Parkinson's disease living in Greece in comparison with patients with sporadic Parkinson's disease.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 May 2001
Papapetropoulos S, Paschalis C, Athanassiadou A, Papadimitriou A, Ellul J, Polymeropoulos M H, Papapetropoulos T
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OBJECTIVE: An Ala53Thr mutation of the alpha-synuclein gene has been recently identified as a rare cause of autosomal Parkinson's disease (PD). The clinical characteristics of 15 patients with PD living in Greece with the Ala53Thr alpha-synuclein mutation (alpha-synPD) were compared with patients with sporadic Parkinson's disease (sPD). METHODS: An investigator, blind to the results of the genetic analysis,...
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