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Mutations in NR4A2 associated with familial Parkinson disease.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2003
Le Wei-Dong, Xu Pingyi, Jankovic Joseph, Jiang Hong, Appel Stanley H, Smith Roy G, Vassilatis Demetrios K
Abstract excerpt
NR4A2, encoding a member of nuclear receptor superfamily, is essential for the differentiation of the nigral dopaminergic neurons. To determine whether NR4A2 is a susceptibility gene for Parkinson disease, we carried out genetic analyses in 201 individuals affected with Parkinson disease and 221 age-matched unaffected controls. We identified two mutations in NR4A2 associated with Parkinson disease (-291Tdel and...
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