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A prospective study of familial versus sporadic Parkinson's disease.
Neuro-degenerative diseases - 1 Jan 2007
Papapetropoulos Spiridon, Adi Nikhil, Ellul John, Argyriou Andreas A, Chroni Elisabeth
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BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. Most cases are sporadic but about 10-15% of patients have a positive family history of PD. OBJECTIVE: To compare clinical phenotypes between familial (fPD) and sporadic (sPD) PD patients. METHODS: Fifty-nine consecutive patients with at least one first-degree relative with PD were prospectively studied. After exclusion of...
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