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PARK8 LRRK2 parkinsonism.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 1 Jul 2006
Haugarvoll Kristoffer, Wszolek Zbigniew K
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common form of parkinsonism, affecting nearly 2% of people older than 65 years of age. Symptomatic treatment has been available for decades, but to date there is no treatment retarding disease progression. Over the past decade several genes causing parkinsonism have been identified in families with a mendelian pattern of inheritance. The most recent is the leucine-rich repeat...
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