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Population genetic approaches to neurological disease: Parkinson's disease as an example.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Aug 2005
Gandhi S, Abou-Sleiman P M, Healy D G, Weale M, Gilks W, Ahmadi K, Goldstein D B, Wood N W
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common, progressive, incurable disabling condition. The cause is unknown but over the past few years tremendous progress in our understanding of the genetic bases of this condition has been made. To date, this has almost exclusively come from the study of relatively rare Mendelian forms of the disease and there are no currently, widely accepted common variants known to increase...
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