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Acetylcholinesterase/paraoxonase interactions increase the risk of insecticide-induced Parkinson's disease.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Mar 2005
Benmoyal-Segal Liat, Vander Tatiana, Shifman Sagiv, Bryk Boris, Ebstein Richard P, Marcus Esther-Lee, Stessman Jochanan, Darvasi Ariel, Herishanu Yuval, Friedman Alon, Soreq Hermona
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to agricultural insecticides, together with yet incompletely understood predisposing genotype/phenotype elements, notably increase the risk of Parkinson's disease. Here, we report findings attributing the increased risk in an insecticide-exposed rural area in Israel to interacting debilitating polymorphisms in the ACHE/PON1 locus and corresponding expression variations. Polymorphisms that debilitate PON1...
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