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Paraoxonase promoter and intronic variants modify risk of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Sept 2007
Cronin Simon, Greenway Matthew J, Prehn Jochen H M, Hardiman Orla
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BACKGROUND: The paraoxonases, PON1-3, play a major protective role both against environmental toxins and as part of the antioxidant defence system. Recently, non-synonymous coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), known to lower serum PON activity, have been associated with sporadic ALS (SALS) in a Polish population. A separate trio based study described a detrimental allele at the PON3 intronic variant...
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