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Lower risk of Parkinson's disease in an admixed population of European and Indian origins.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Aug 2003
Ragothaman Mona, Murgod Uday A, Gururaj Gopalkrishna, Kumaraswamy Subbakrishna D, Muthane Uday
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We studied whether the occurrence of Parkinson's disease (PD) in the Anglo-Indians, an admixed population of European and Asian Indian origin, differs from Indians living in the same environment. Epidemiological studies show considerably higher prevalence of PD amongst white compared to non-white populations. Normal Indians contain a approximately 40% lower number of melanized nigral neurons compared to...
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