Lack of association between an estrogen receptor 1 gene polymorphism and Parkinson's disease with dementia.

doi:10.1034/j.1600-0404.2002.01331.x

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Lack of association between an estrogen receptor 1 gene polymorphism and Parkinson's disease with dementia.

Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Sept 2002

Mattila K M, Rinne J O, Röyttä M, Laippala P, Lehtimäki T

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OBJECTIVE: To test for an association between an estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene polymorphism and Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) in Finnish subjects. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Forty-one clinically demented and pathologically confirmed PDD patients and 59 cognitively intact aged individuals with normal neuropathology were genotyped for the ESR1 PvuII polymorphism. RESULTS: We found no significant differences...

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