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Clinical features of parkinsonian patients with the alpha-synuclein (G209A) mutation.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Nov 2001
Bostantjopoulou S, Katsarou Z, Papadimitriou A, Veletza V, Hatzigeorgiou G, Lees A
Abstract excerpt
The motor and neuropsychological abnormalities in eight Greek patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) carrying the alpha-synuclein gene mutation (G209A) were studied. These patients (five men, three women) belonged to six different families. Their symptoms started between 32-50 years of age (mean +/- SD, 39.7 +/- 7.6 years) and they had a mean disease duration of 5.4 +/- 2.1 years (range, 2-9 years) at the time of...
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