Genetics of Parkinson's disease.

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Twenty years ago Parkinson's disease (PD) was thought of as an environmentally determined neurodegenerative disease. It is now known that there are two autosomal dominant disease genes, alpha-synuclein and dardarin, and three genes responsible for autosomal recessive PD, parkin, DJ-1 and PINK-1. Although these gene mutations are not common, their identification has led to a new understanding of the pathogenesis...

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