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Mutations in DJ-1 are rare in familial Parkinson disease.
Neuroscience letters - 20 Nov 2006
Pankratz Nathan, Pauciulo Michael W, Elsaesser Veronika E, Marek Diane K, Halter Cheryl A, Wojcieszek Joanne, Rudolph Alice, Shults Clifford W, Foroud Tatiana, Nichols William C
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in DJ-1 (PARK7) are one cause of early-onset autosomal-recessive parkinsonism. We screened for DJ-1 mutations in 93 affected individuals from the 64 multiplex Parkinson disease (PD) families in our sample that had the highest family-specific multipoint LOD scores at the DJ-1 locus. In a...
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