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Morphometric fingerprint of asymptomatic Parkin and PINK1 mutation carriers in the basal ganglia.
Neurology - 28 Aug 2007
Binkofski F, Reetz K, Gaser C, Hilker R, Hagenah J, Hedrich K, van Eimeren T, Thiel A, Büchel C, Pramstaller P P, Siebner H R, Klein C
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BACKGROUND: Mutations in the Parkin and PINK1 genes can cause parkinsonism. Since asymptomatic carriers of a single mutant allele of the Parkin or PINK1 gene display a presynaptic dopaminergic dysfunction in the striatum, they provide a unique in vivo model to study structural and functional reorganization in response to latent nigrostriatal dysfunction. We hypothesized that subclinical nigrostriatal...
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