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Association study of human MTH1 Ile45Thr polymorphism with sporadic Parkinson's disease.
European neurology - 1 Jan 2008
Jiang Gaofeng, Xu Lei, Wang Lin, Song Shizhen, Zhu Changcai
Abstract excerpt
Human MTH1, an oxidized purine nucleoside triphosphatase, hydrolyzes 8-oxo-dGTP thereby preventing its misincorporation into DNA. The present study was designed to investigate a possible link between the MTH1 Ile45Thr polymorphism and the development of sporadic Parkinson disease (PD). This case-control study consisted of 106 PD patients and 135 unrelated controls. MTH1 polymorphism was detected by polymerase...
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