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Analysis of the PINK1 gene in a cohort of patients with sporadic early-onset parkinsonism in Taiwan.
Neuroscience letters - 6 Feb 2006
Fung Hon-Chung, Chen Chiung-Mei, Hardy John, Singleton Andrew B, Lee-Chen Guey-Jen, Wu Yih-Ru
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the PINK1 gene have been shown to cause autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease (PD) and/or early onset sporadic PD in Italy, Spain, North America, Ireland, and Asia. However, there are limited data on PINK1 mutations in sporadic early onset Asian PD patients. To determine the prevalence of PINK1 mutation in Taiwanese population, we conducted genetic analysis of PINK1 mutation in 73 early onset...
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