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Apolipoprotein E genotype as a risk factor for susceptibility to and dementia in Parkinson's disease.
Journal of neurology - 1 Mar 2009
Williams-Gray Caroline H, Goris An, Saiki Misuzu, Foltynie Thomas, Compston D Alastair S, Sawcer Stephen J, Barker Roger A
Abstract excerpt
Further to the well-established association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) and Alzheimer's disease, this gene has also been implicated in both susceptibility to, and dementia in, Parkinson's disease (PD). However studies to date have produced contradictory findings. We conducted a case-control study in a population of 528 PD patients and 512 healthy controls and found no significant difference in allele or...
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