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Clinical characteristics of Parkinson's disease among Jewish Ethnic groups in Israel.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Sept 2008
Djaldetti R, Hassin-Baer S, Farrer M J, Vilariño-Güell C, Ross O A, Kolianov V, Yust-Katz S, Treves T A, Barhum Y, Hulihan M, Melamed E
Abstract excerpt
Yemenite Jews in Israel are a distinctive ethnic division of the Jewish diaspora. Clinical findings, disease course and genetic tests for the LRRK2 6055G > A (G2019S) mutation were compared between Ashkenazi and Yemenite Israeli patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Age of onset was significantly younger in the Yemenites (P < 0.001). There were no differences in the distribution of initial symptoms,...
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