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Parkin dosage mutations have greater pathogenicity in familial PD than simple sequence mutations.
Neurology - 28 Jul 2009
Pankratz N, Kissell D K, Pauciulo M W, Halter C A, Rudolph A, Pfeiffer R F, Marder K S, Foroud T, Nichols W C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Mutations in both alleles of parkin have been shown to result in Parkinson disease (PD). However, it is unclear whether haploinsufficiency (presence of a mutation in only 1 of the 2 parkin alleles) increases the risk for PD. METHODS: We performed comprehensive dosage and sequence analysis of all 12 exons of parkin in a sample of 520 independent patients with familial PD and 263 controls. We evaluated...
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