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Association of variations in monoamine oxidases A and B with Parkinson's disease subgroups.
Genomics - 1 Mar 2004
Parsian A, Racette B, Zhang Z H, Rundle M, Perlmutter J S
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age dependent, neurodegenerative disorder and is predominantly a sporadic disease. A minority of patients has a positive family history for PD and the majority of those families exhibit a complex mode of inheritance. The monoamine oxidases A and B (MAO-A and -B) genes, which are involved in serotonin and dopamine metabolism, are possible candidate genes for susceptibility...
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