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Novel features in a patient homozygous for the L347P mutation in the PINK1 gene.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Aug 2007
Doostzadeh J, Tetrud J W, Allen-Auerbach M, Langston J W, Schüle B
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to assess the genotype-phenotype of PINK1 mutations. We genotyped eight known mutations in three clinic-based cohorts with Parkinsonism and found one homozygous p.L347P mutation in PINK1. Clinically, hypo-osmia and profound diurnal variation of symptoms were identified as novel features; fluorodopa positron emission tomography revealed striking decline in striatal fluorodopa uptake....
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