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Parkinson's disease is not associated with the combined alpha-synuclein/apolipoprotein E susceptibility genotype.
Annals of neurology - 1 May 2001
Khan N, Graham E, Dixon P, Morris C, Mander A, Clayton D, Vaughan J, Quinn N, Lees A, Daniel S, Wood N, de Silva R
Abstract excerpt
A recent study showed significant association of sporadic Parkinson's disease with a polymorphism within the alpha-synuclein gene and closely linked DNA markers on chromosome 4q and the APOE epsilon4 allele. A combined alpha-synuclein/APOE-epsilon4 genotype increased the relative risk of developing Parkinson's disease 12-fold. We failed to confirm this association in a much larger sample of histopathologically...
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