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Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele is associated with Parkinson disease risk in a Mexican Mestizo population.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 Feb 2007
López Marisol, Guerrero Jorge, Yescas Petra, Boll Marie-Catherine, Familiar Itziar, Ochoa Adriana, Rasmussen Astrid, Alonso María Elisa
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles and genotypes and Parkinson disease (PD) in 229 unrelated Mexican Mestizo PD patients and 229 controls. Results showed that both APOE-epsilon4 allele and APOE epsilon4/epsilon3 genotype are associated with PD (OR = 1.736, P = 0.011; OR = 1.688, P = 0.019, respectively). Mean age at onset of PD was not associated to any APOE allele or...
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